The gloves are coming off. Although the RIAA already won a $675,000 judgment against student Joel Tenenbaum over 30 songs shared on P2P networks, the recording industry has a fixation with going the extra mile against infringers. It is asking courts to issue injunctions against repeated infringement for both Tenenbaum and Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the only other file-sharing defendant to go to trial in the US.

In a new filing with the Massachusetts federal court, RIAA lawyers rail against Tenenbaum's "repeated lies and continued infringement," saying that "it is likely Defendant will continue to infringe and/or act in concert with others in committing online copyright infringement of Plaintiffs’ sound recordings, especially given that he is currently promoting the online copyright infringement by countless others."

What are they talking about? Well, Tenenbaum's appearance on The Pirate Bay's front page, for one thing. Last month, the Bay was hawking a .torrent file of all 30 songs at issue in the case, labeling it "DJ Joel: The $675,000 Mixtape." Tenenbaum's team told Ars some time ago that he had no notice of or involvement with the torrent.

What his team did do was issue a tweet saying, "Interesting: a 'joel' torrent list of the 30 songs is now on thepirateBay/other torrent sites and is being DL widely in protest."

That tweet, says the recording industry, is evidence that Tenenbaum continues to promote copyright infringement.

Now, it didn't help that Tenenbaum lied to the industry several times (and admitted that he had done so in court), or that he continued to use P2P apps long after having a federal copyright lawsuit filed against him. It also didn't help that his legal team uploaded the songs at issue in the case to a file-hosting website, and Harvard Law prof (and Tenenbaum lead lawyer) Charles Nesson posted the username and password to his blog.

The reaction of Judge Nancy Gertner was predictable; at the time, she chided Nesson, saying, "The Court's indulgence is at an end. Too often, as described below, the important issues in this case have been overshadowed by the tactics of defense counsel: taping opposing counsel without permission (and in violation of the law), posting recordings of court communications and emails with potential experts (who have rejected the positions counsel asserts) on the Internet, and now allegedly replicating the acts that are the subject of this lawsuit, namely uploading the copyrighted songs that the Defendant is accused of file-sharing."

The RIAA wants an injunction against Tenenbaum, but the fact that his team tweeted once about his appearance on one of the most-trafficked front pages on the Web seems a pretty thin reason to argue that he continues to flaunt both the court and copyright law. Still, when your own legal team passes out the copyrighted songs in question "with an image of Defendant’s counsel and the statement 'Destroy Capitalism - Support Piracy'" beneath it, it's no wonder the industry gets a little hot under the collar.