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Re:NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs by guelo on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @08:53PM (#4139964)
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.
Re:NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs by tptacek on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @10:40PM (#4140253)
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.