The RIAA is filing lawsuits, and its teeth, because it knows that, if the various Napsters aren't killed, the industry will be eyeball to eyeball with extinction. For music, the Internet has already broken the monopoly over distribution. Come broadband, and people will swap movies on DVD, or just flat copy them. A major money-bucket will dry up, and record stores will vanish, leaving smoking holes in the ground. Which raises a question.
Musicians deserve to be paid.
The entertainment industry, however, deserves to be drowned. They are moral sludge who have drenched the country in vulgarity, pore-level sex, and gorgeous explosive eviscerations in slow motion. Anything that hurts them is good for civilization. At bottom, the dispute over Napster isn't about kids listening to godawful rock'n'roll. We're moving into a new world, whether we choose to or not.