The RIAA and Movie Industry Think They Are Above The Law

This should be no surprise, but the RIAA and their cronies in the film industry believe that standard business laws should not apply to them. Both industries are lobbying politicians to receive a special exception to tough pretexting laws that were brought about in response to the HP case where employees were lying to journalists to get information. According to them, they need this right to pretext in order to catch pirates. The biggest problem with this is that the alterations they have for the laws leave such huge loopholes that they would be rendered useless. To some extent I can see why the RIAA could use these changes. At the same time part of me finds it very disturbing that the RIAA is trying to receive legislative support to more or less lie to average American citizens as they attempt to sue them for something that a majority of the population practices. If I was a lawyer for the RIAA I'd try to find a link between illegal downloading and Al-Quaeda. That's how you get legislation passed! Hell, that's how you get wars started!