goodbye, ears...now I've heard everything

Thanks to some Swedish guy on Greplaw for that expression but this is a new level of chutzpah.
From Derek Slater...Johns Hopkins University never got a C&D letter from Diebold and is aware that Diebold agreed to withdraw its letters when challenged, but JHU is still blocking access to Diebold documents stating that the University "cannot allow its resources to be used in violation of copyright law, whether or not the holder of the copyright (in this case Diebold) plans to prosecute."  
So let's consider this slowly.  An institution founded for the purpose of education and research considers it morally wrong to help someone find and read documents because she might use that help to violate copyright law?  Does JHU really believe use of copyrighted work (which is essentially all current work unless rights are expressly granted) is presumptively infringing?  What does it imagine its faculty and students do all day long other than read, analyze, comment on and quote others' copyrighted work?  It's called fair use.  It's called scholarship.  It's called doing research and citing your sources.  Better get rid of all those books in the library before some criminal footnotes them!  Dante (he's in the public domain, by the way) put the hypocrites pretty far down into hell, if memory serves me.  Lasciate ogni sperenza, voi che'entrate.