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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
My personal view of the litigation is that to have the government give a publisher a legal monopoly, which is precisely what copyright is, and then go after them for being a monopolist, is absurd.
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The government didn't "go after"
a publisher. They went after a
group of them (competitors) who acted in concert with another corporation to raise prices. It's not that difficult a distinction to grasp. I fail to see why so many struggle to do so. The conspiracy (with Apple at the center assuring individual players that the rest of the players would be on board when the trigger actually got pulled) is the beginning, middle and end of the issue.
Besides... how is copyright a monopoly granted to the publisher? The publisher isn't the rights holder. They've simply negotiated a contract with the rights holder.