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Devil's advocate for a moment, but every way that I'm aware of Monsanto letting people die is essentially an economical one: They ruin people's ability to buy or labor for food...which makes the comparison to the RIAA just one of a different scale. If the RIAA were even better at taking money from people, people would starve.

Of course, it makes no sense for the RIAA to starve its working musicians, but the ones who have stopped selling above margin?

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Except that if the RIAA could/would actually put a musician out of bussiness, that musician could do another line of work to earn enough money to eat.

What Monsanto is doing, basically, is redisigning crops to work on their behalf. Whenever a crop can develop properly due to the proliferation of roundup resistant weeds, you have to buy the newest crop from them again, wether you like it or not.

Also there is the (theoretical) risk that someday they won't be able to keep up with resistance, which could curtail food supply, and won't make a difference wether you can purchase it or not.

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