The RIAA isn't limiting your bandwidth, the school is. The RIAA has absolutely no power to do that. And when my college did that, it was the best thing they could've possibly done. Before, they had no limits, and it was just a giant free-for-all. A few people would hog up all the available bandwidth and the rest of us would be stuck with crappy dial up speeds. Then they implemented something where everyone's speed was capped at a certain amount, and that cap would drop based on how much they downloaded in a given period. One they did that, the hogs were limited and the rest of us got upwards of 3mbps a second. It was awesome. I don't remember the exact numbers, but before the limits were in place, something like 5% of the users were using over 90% of the available bandwidth. And as someone who works at the college's helpdesk, I get a ton of calls from people whining "But I pay for it, I want a faster internet connection!!!!" The smartass in me wants to tell them that they pay like $100 a semester in IT fees, and if they were to go out in the real world, they couldn't even get dial up for $100 every 6 months. And that because there's no such thing as unlimited bandwidth, what we have needs to be fairly divided among the thousands of students who use it.