What made the CNet article interesting was

"Don't they have something better to do during the summer than hack our site?" asked the RIAA representative, who asked not to be identified. "Perhaps it at least took 10 minutes away from stealing music."
It's funny how some people think. They seem to glob crackers and pirates in the same catagory. Anyway, even if the cracker(s)were a pirate(s), it would not take any time away from downloading more music while setting up and executing a massive DoS (or DDoS) on a web server. Gimmee a break

Also, kakisrule was right when he said

Bound to happen, they must've known somebody would be annoyed with their tactics and strike back.
However, two wrongs do not make a right, and it's just going to push this bill through that much quicker.

[RANT]
Of course I sympathize with the fact many, many people are pissed off because of the proposed bill and anti piracy has really gone out of hand with all of this, but we also have to remember we helped make this monster. I mean, many are not buying CD's, movies, or software anymore because broadband and KaZaA is so readily available now, and the industry is getting really mad about it.

Now before others start jumping my ****, hear me out. Answers to this problem is not in an all-out war of the industry, pirates and crackers, but in some kind of compromise. Let's face it. Everybody likes things for free. Businessmen like to make money, lots of it. Now it seems we are at a stalemate, and it seems the only way things are going to work for the industry to squeeze the dollars they used to get is to start going around and deleting things without a warrant or due process. To me, they are no better than the people who DoS'ed their site in the first place, and they are just hypocrytical fools.

So what goes around comes around, and two wrongs do not make a right on both the industry and the crackers. This whole war is pathetic. [/RANT]

I said this once, and I will say it again. I am against piracy and think others deserve a living, but I do not condone greediness.