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Exactly. Infringement is infringement. It may or may not involve financial compensation, but only if the infringement is judged to have affected the copyright holder's potential market.
The RIAA claims that file sharing is affecting CD music sales.
Given what they are trying to sell, I think they should consider other factors for the faltering sales of what *they think* should be selling well.

And, to an industry that cries and whines over CD music sales, what say they to these facts:
Other positive trends for the industry include the growth in sales of music videos, which saw a 12% rise in units sold. Growth worldwide is attributed to the increase in sales of DVDs overall and DVD players; DVD music videos rose by 58% compared to a 42% decline in VHS. With the release of over 1,300 new titles by record companies in 2002, DVD music videos are expected to become a growing contributor to music sales.

New formats such as DVD Audio and Super Audio CD (SACD) also did well. Music companies have launched new CD titles simultaneously on DVD Audio or SACD. Since 2001, unit sales of both DVD Audio and SACD combined more than trebled, with each format selling over one million each in 2002.

Remember this doesn't take into account the big growth in indie music sales. Many of these small companies have doubled and tripled business in the last 2-3 years.