Adam Liptak has an interesting Sidebar in today's NYT about the Attorney General of Oregon defending the University of Oregon's decision to fight an RIAA subpoena seeking the identities of students the RIAA suspects of sharing music. The University and Attorney General are saying that privacy protection for the University's students is more important than complying with the RIAA subpoena, particularly since this RIAA legal operation more resembles an extortionary shakedown in which violators of copyright are given the opportunity to settle (typically to the tune of three or four thousand dollars) rather than using actual judicial proceedings to determine the approriate compensations.