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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
If Amazon breaks the law than the DOJ should get involved. I fail to see how enforcing the law is a bad thing.
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It can be, when the government picks a winner.
Another opinion to this effect, Tim Carmody from Wired...
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/...er-settlement/
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I don't think that the DOJ should choose not to pursue a lawsuit against Apple and the Five Publishers because it had the side benefit of propping up BN.
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Again it's not that they should ignore collusion. It's that the settlement terms should not fork over the business to one competitor
Keep in mind that Random House is using the same exact agency pricing policies and is not named in the suit. It's like the DoJ is saying "it was illegal for you to talk to one another, but what you were doing was legal, and we're going to stop you from doing it anyway."
Meanwhile vendor lock-in and freezing out 3rd party vendors aren't even sniffed at. It's a stunning oversight on the part of the DoJ.