How to Avoid Getting RIAAed Cassandra R. Hunt: How to Avoid Getting RIAAed. Here's one quote from the essay, "This profit margin can't change in a system where we must purchase 90 percent of our music from the RIAA. Without competitors, we're forced to get our music at the prices it sets. And when the recording industry behaves like a trust, the question of ethics gets thrown back to the accuser. People have been recording music onto tapes for decades, but using a technology that allows higher profits comes with the cost of having a new scale of competition -- free digital music sharing."