healthy market forces at play... Wait, we're talking about the recorded music industry, right? An industry that continues to exist only because a massive regul

healthy market forces at play... Wait, we're talking about the recorded music industry, right? An industry that continues to exist only because a massive regulatory structure prevents me from just giving you a copy of all of my albums? You might be able to convince me that, on balance, this is a good monopoly... if the public domain still existed. Which it doesn't. (Thanks, Mickey Mouse and Sonny Bono!) But, whether you approve of it or not, it crossed the line of "monopolistic behaviour" more than a generation ago.