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Originally Posted by pwalker8
You mean that Apple should be whacked for agreeing to let the publishers to use a price model that is perfectly legal and was already being negotiated by B&N, one of those other ebook sellers who you say that Apple was conspiring to attack using this model? The publishers have been pushing the agency pricing for a while, it's just with Amazon's monopoly (90+% of the market at the time) they couldn't get any leverage.
Once again, you can't fix prices if you aren't setting prices. Yes, I get that you hate Apple's walled garden and thus Apple is evil and should be punished. But look at the facts. Apple wasn't setting the prices, the prices didn't go up, there was zero evidence shown that Apple made any attempt to fix prices.
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It wasn't legal. It was conspiracy and collusion. You just don't get it. B&N may have been negotiating, but they didn't do it. Apple did it. So Apple should be the one severely punished.