Yahoo News and about a billion other news sites are abuzz over the latest press release from the RIAA which promises to hunt down the ip address, and then the identity, of anyone boasting the biggest collections of copyright MP3 files currently visible to them, over popular file sharing networks.

In this never ending arms race, we conclude this move will provoke faster development of file sharing software designed to thwart such probing. As additional options become available to consumers (such as iTunes) to buy digital music legally, for reasonable prices, the rising curve of legal digital music buyers will overtake the the declining curve of those at risk of such lawsuits. We look forward to this day, because probably everyone by now is sick of press releases from the RIAA.