I'd like to say Penn State has a cutting edge idea with their Napster agreement. Unfortunately, with the article in Friday's Collegian, "Firewall will block Kazaa use," I was made aware that not only will Penn State force service down students' throats, it also now will no longer truly deliver free Internet. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), who has shady ties with Penn State, obviously does not like Kazaa. Let's face it, it has reason to not like file sharing. But students do not and should not be paying their tuition and fee money to the RIAA and to Penn State for partial access to the Internet. Penn State should understand that the courts of this nation have upheld the legal use of Kazaa and other similar applications.

Point is, there are plenty of legal uses to Kazaa, and the courts recognize this. Thus, Penn State's decision to block ports to such file-sharing applications is just another slap to students' freedom and proof a monopoly like the RIAA is bedmates with Penn State.