Fewer Freedoms, Less Access

The library world is a-twitter with the latest proposed DOPA legislation. It seems that this time around, it’s even scarier than it was last fall. But new (at least to me) is RIAA’s threat to accessing the internet at all. An article in today’s online Wired reveals that record labels are suing ISP owners for any and all illegal P2P song transfers, whether or not the owner was aware that other people were using their ISPs. Wired authors Buskirk and Michaels postulate that this could result in the illegalization of WiFi hotspots, since the owner of the ISP (Starbucks, some chick on the third floor of an apartment building, etc.) could be sued. If this came to pass, what would that mean for libraries providing free WiFi to patrons/students? Does anyone think this will really happen? If it does, how could libraries fight against it?