A few bits of news from the front on the ongoing RIAA war against file traders. Notably, the RIAA filed 532 more lawsuits, 89 of which were against students, including an NYU student. This brings the total number of lawsuits up to 1977. According to their press release, "by a more than two-to-one margin, the public supports the record companies legal efforts," which doesn't necessarily jive with the vibe on the street and in more impartial studies. The University of Michigan, however, doesn't feel like it can do much to stop the RIAA subpoenas according to this article. Meanwhile, CD sales are making a strong comeback. Nevermind the fact that CDs, like casettes and LPs, are rapidly becoming antiquated and obsolete technology, the RIAA still apparently thinks it can sue its potential customers into revenue growth (with all its obvious parallels to the SCO embarassment). It is too bad that everyone doesn't have the economic freedom to donate their future recordings for charity like George Michael announced recently. Then again, maybe the Clear Channel execs can -- they raked in tens of millions of dollars in compensation this past year on the monopoly strength of their empire.