Desperate people sometimes do evil things. And the folks at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) are showing their desperation in horrific new ways. According to a Wired News story, the RIAA is trying to gain access to your computer to check for and delete copyrighted files -- regardless of the possible damage to your system.

Lobbyists for the RIAA were trying get a hacking-authorization amendment added on to the new anti-terrorism bill that's about to be passed called the USA Act. Its additions haven't been included in the Senate and House drafts of the bill.

But the RIAA is still pushing it with rewrites of the amendment. You should wonder about an organization that's OK with abusing our privacy while using America's pain and fear to further its own greedy cause.

Well, hopefully America will push back a little and say "No!" to the RIAA and stop purchasing its products completely. If we starve this beast -- sooner or later -- it's bound to die.

The bill to be stated as follows:

My thoughts:

This is pathetic. How can the RIAA take advantage of a situation where so many people innocently died?

One has to wonder if the RIAA is a puppet of Usama bin Laden and the Al Queda organization or similar terrorist group.

I think the RIAA should be permanently punished by not patronizing artists and music stores indefinitely.