The chances are

1. he actually did it
2. this is a plot by US officials to get him
3. someone wants to make US officials seem sheer idiots making such ludicrous plots
4. someone wants to make someone against US look bad because everything under point 3 all is too ridiculous to be taken seriously
5. someone wants someone else look like plotting like in point 4
etc. going on basically switching 3 and 4...

If I had to guess, I'd say the correct answer is 11. or maybe 23.

RIAA and the industry behind it are bound to vanish soon, so they have nothing to lose anymore and they can use any means they wish to gain small wins before the destruction. The problem is that the stupid laws they push will bug people for decades after the nowadays media industry has been buried and forgotten.

Almost every dying meme or institution works in a same aggressive and self-destructing way. Look at the news.