Music Recording Industry's Dirty Tricks

Jett writes "Salon.com has an article up about how some evil corporate cartel called "RIAA" almost succeded in stealing recording copyrights from artists forever by secretly slipping an amendment into a 1,740-page omnibus spending bill. It's rather ironic that they whine about Napster "stealing from artists" when they themselves are running around Washington using their political powers to secretly create laws that steal from artists." Well, they did succeed. However, enough of the artists protested, and the RIAA has enough other troubles, that they're going to support changing the law back.