Discuss “Executive Privilege”

For a second week, The Tartan reports on the Recording Industry Association of America?s barrage of lawsuits targeting i2hub users from college campuses across the nation. Twenty-five Carnegie Mellon students are among the students hit by the civil suits.

In hunting down college students for sums of money equalling a semester?s tuition at most colleges, the RIAA and its members have adopted a reprehensible strategy. But shameful schemes are nothing new to the RIAA and its members.

In 1996, the five largest record distributors ? all members of the RIAA ? collectively adopted a minimum advertised price for their CDs. The distributors prevented retailers from lowering their prices to compete with

each other by penalizing disobedient retailers....