Reply #119: The RIAA has a legal right to sue those who are violating its copyright.

[Kelly Rupert]

I believe the damages they can be awarded are arbitrary and capricious, as they say, but they certainly have the right to do so.

We do not have the right to sue them in kind, if that's what you mean. If you mean that we have the right to not purchase music from them, well, you're obviously correct--but activists make up such a small part of the market, that really any attempt to do so is pointless. People aren't going to stop listening to music, and people aren't going to start putting much more effort into acquiring it. The RIAA will exist as long as mass-market music does as well.

If you want to 'beat' the RIAA, support indie labels--by buying their music.