Congress Critters Threaten To Pass Laws Forcing Universities To Obey RIAA

As if we needed any more, here is some more fuel for the outrage that the very mention of RIAA/MPAA is or should be causing:

"It appears that the money the RIAA is spending on campaign donations is well spent, however. With the universities not falling into line as expected, Congress held hearings where various politicians blasted universities for not taking a more proactive stance and threatening to withhold federal money from universities that don't play by the RIAA's rules."

One of the interesting comments to this story, written by "The infamous Joe" shows us the badly needed reset button on the US government:

"Is there a reset button on the government? Oh yeah, the founding fathers wrote one in there for us:

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security.."

Should we add anything else? Instead of blasting RIAA for their quite illegal lawsuits, also obvious as racketeering, extortion and theft of privacy and dignity, the congress is actually siding with RIAA.