I'm no economist, but AFAIK market forces are defined by the way people buy/sell goods.

Your analogy fails to draw a parallel since you have only one side, the seller. Also, you're talking about reselling here, where the main debate is the sharing of music.

However I fail to realize where you deny this is "the market". Consumers are making their demands known by pursuing alternative ways of obtaining a good. Seems pretty market-y to me, regardless of the means.

I'm not sure how this responds to my comment, since reselling books I scan from the library seems perfectly analogous to the market you propose.

There is a clear disconnect to both of our interpretations of each other's comments. Please see my response to the other comment in this thread.

I'll read and respond to that comment, but I'd like to reiterate that the comment you made immediately above the one I'm responding to is nonresponsive. The analogy I've provided, of pirating and reselling books from the library, is in fact perfectly analogous to the issue we're discussing.

It's not what you as an individual might do that defines "the market" that pdeuchler refers to, it's how the majority of customers behave. If everybody was doing a lot of book scanning and freely sharing copies book publishers would have to find new business models or perish. If customers don't behave in a way that supports your business model, and you can't talk them into changing their behavior, you need to find a new business model.

This isn't complicated.

Perhaps the music industry does need a new business model. In fact, I'm pretty sure they do!

That does not give the people who disagree with their business model license to cheat the companies.