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How Harvard Law threw down the gauntlet to the RIAA  Inside one
Harvard Law professor's bid to turn his students into …
Changing the rules  Students, as a group, aren't generally known
for thinking small. Life has yet to beat them down and they are
free to dream big dreams—in this case, about the end of the
RIAA's litigation campaign.  Rosenbaum, Sanchez, and Okike all
stress that they aren't out to overturn copyright or to launch
some kind of "revolution"—but that doesn't mean they don't have
larger goals than simply getting one graduate student off the
hook.  After the music industry announced the end of its
widespread litigation campaign last December, RIAA scourge Ray
Beckerman and others made a big deal about the fact that new
lawsuits were, in fact, still being filed after the
announcement. As Ars noted when covering the initial
announcement, though, the RIAA did not pledge to never file
another lawsuit; it explicitly reserved the right to k