Why don’t the MP3 Lunatics feel sorry for RIAA? After yesterday’s entry about the “you can’t rip your own CD” stupidity, who would have thought it could get any worse?

Well, the Record Industry Association of America must hate Oregon. First, the RIAA is going to pony up for hounding Tanya J. Anderson’s ten year old. It seems Ms. Anderson wouldn’t settle up with the RIAA’s erroneous lawsuit so our favorite copyright cartel has now threatened to question her daughter.

This witch hunt has been going on since 2005. Oregon’s Attorney General Hardy Myers wants the RIAA to fully explain themselves. The RIAA is going to have to start answering some tough questions about their ill-advised lawsuits. Katherine Von Ter Steege – the assistant attorney general of Oregon – goes so far as to question whether the litigation strategies adopted by the RIAA are even kosher. She was referring to the “basic notions of privacy and due process.”

The litigious and out-of-control RIAA seems to be equating illegal file-sharing with terrorism. The Lunatics wonder… is waterboarding downloaders the next step in the RIAA’s master plan to shut down P2P networks?

And finally, it seems EMI is considering reducing the $132,000,000 it contributes annually to the RIAA. The Lunatics wonder what the RIAA does with the $528,000,000 it collects from the major labels. They can’t spend it all on lawsuits, right?

The Lunatics suspect the bulk of this money goes to lobbying our elected officials about copyright issues. The Lunatics hope the RIAA does as good a job with politicians as they have done with the public.