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Originally Posted by Fbone
How much time must elapse between acceptance for it not to be collusion? We know from Random House it's less than a year.
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It's a fair question, but I'm not even sure it boils down to the exact "timing." Yes, Random House did themselves a big favor by waiting as long as they did, but I think this case is going to boil down to whether or not the DoJ can
prove that there were machinations/communications/meetings between all the defendants to put the lipstick on this particular pig. If they can
do that; then it wouldn't matter if they had staggered their roll-outs by days or even weeks. Collusion is collusion. They're just not allowed to work in concert to come up with a business plan that raises prices. They're not supposed to work in concert to affect their industry... period. Regardless if the plan they came up with might have potentially saved ten-thousand drowning kittens.
Prove that the publishers worked
together—whether directly or through Apple as a facilitator—and none of them has a pot to pi$$ in. Or don't prove it, and they all walk away wiping the sweat off their forehead.
The precise timing of events and whether or not it was done to save the starving children are red herrings in my opinion.