RIAA: Chasing Pirates and Complaining about Artists

The RIAA seems to have reached a new dimension in its fight against pirates, P2P and in general all people not willing to follow their rules and business model. The music majors, represented by the RIAA, have a simple model in mind: if our profits decrease it is only due to pirates, P2P, and other issues, absolutely not linked to our middle-age business model.
So the RIAA, while tracking pirates down, has decided to launch a re-negotiations with artists concerning royalties associated with digital music products (mostly ring tones). The RIAA expects do decrease the percentage normally reserved for the artists.
So after getting consumers annoyed by all those non compatible DRM floating around, the RIAA might get in fight with the artists themselves.
It is really getting boring to see how Music Majors refuse to reconsider their business model, or at least make it evolving to something compatible with the digital music (r)evolution on-going for now couple of years. At the end, they will loose everything, and it will soon look like a another-age battle, a bit like fighting against the wind. Why do they think that most consumers are pirates. It is not. Simply most consumers do intent to listen to music the way they want, with a mobile player, in their cars, on their computer, etc...