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Originally Posted by Fbone
It was announced yesterday by Judge Cote's pre-trial statements that certain Amazon documents can be revealed. These include emails that show Amazon's efforts to establish an Agency system between themselves and the major publishers a few months before Apple's. Evidently, Apple's offer was better than Amazon's. This may explain why Amazon has been so aloof about the lawsuit until now where they agreed to un-redact certain evidence.
Still Judge Cote said Amazon is not part of the lawsuit and will focus the trial on Apple.
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An agency system in and of itself isn't the problem. It's already been ruled that such a system wouldn't be illegal. It's the collusion part that the trial is about.