The music industry RIAA’s massive multi-pronged assault on file-sharers and universities—debilitating, pointless, destructive and futile—doesn’t get as much attneiton as it should. One of the few parties with energy enough to track it all is Ray Beckerman, who on his blog Recording Industry vs. the People tracks as many of the cases as he can.

…So now the RIAA is going ofter him, filing a suit charging him with “vexatious” legal behavior. From Wired’s coverage:

Lory Lybeck, a Washington state defense attorney leading a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the RIAA of allegedly engaging in “sham” litigation tactics, said the RIAA’s motion comes from the same organization that has sued about 30,000 people over the last five years for file sharing, some of them falsely. It’s the same organization, he said, that has sued dead people, the elderly and even children — all while using unlicensed investigators.

“This is like irony and irony and irony,” Lybeck said in a telephone interview. “That’s what vexatious litigation is.”