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In early September, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is planning to break every known rule of corporate public relations, writes Mike France in Business Week, by suing hundreds of high school valedictorians, pilots, firefighters, entrepreneurs, and other seemingly upstanding citizens for stealing songs online. As RIAA president Cary Sherman says, “Downloaded music or file-swapping is a persuasive problem that is causing great harm to everyone who brings music to the public,” it has affected the sales at stores, such as Sam Goody and Music World. From a personal perspective, I have not bought a CD at a store for a couple of years because of the fact that downloading is cheaper and much easier. I guess in a way I am part of the problem for music companies. The RIAA is focusing on the “most egregious” file-swappers. It is trying to shut down the main file-sharing services such as Kazaa, Morpheus, and Grokster, but have failed to do so. They are in the process of subpoenaing nearly 1,000 people for illegally swapping files, which is an infringement on Copyright laws. The targets will receive a copy of th