the riaa takes on the world

We linked to an article here a few days ago about four lawsuits pursued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). A couple of followup articles that describe the suits in more detail are Zack Rosen's $97,800,000,000 and Joseph Barillari's An analysis of the RIAA's complaint against Dan Peng '05. Interesting reading. What role might the DMCA have in protecting any of the defendants in these cases? What chance does the RIAA have in collecting that much money from the law suits it initiated here?