Pot. Kettle. Black.



It's a twist and a refreshing one at that.

The RIAA are being countersued by Sharman Networks, the makers of the popular peer-to-peer software KaZaa.

During a congressional hearing on illegal sharing of music, the RIAA is alleged to have used KaZaa Lite, an unauthorized copy of Sharman's KaZaa Media Desktop software.

The RIAA responded to the suit with this:

"Sharman Networks' newfound admiration for the importance of copyright law is ironic to say the least. Too bad this self-serving respect stops at its headquarters' door ... and doesn't extend to preventing the rampant piracy on their networks or lifting a finger to educate their users about the consequences of illegal file sharing."

Sharman fired back:

"It's ironic that somebody who's suing 12-year-old girls for copyright infringement themselves blatantly disregard copyright laws," he said. "Who's being more ironic?" (more)