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Originally Posted by cfrizz
Apple is run by a bunch of hypocritical, lying thieves, I hope they keep pushing until the judge decides they need to be monitored until they go belly up!
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Civil antitrust is not a way to punish individuals. The people who now run Apple will have left with golden parachutes before the company goes bankrupt.
I will however go a little in the anti-Apple direction by saying that there is more moral justification for minimum book prices than there is for Apple setting minimum hardware prices, as it does.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
You may prefer book x, and I may prefer book y, but I could use book x and you could use book y, if necessary.
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So long as I live in a country with good library services, I could, at worst, get book x by interlibrary loan. So it wouldn't ever be necessary for me to read y.
That is -- so long as x was created.
By making it less likely that Amazon would gain control over the publishers, I think the agency years increased the chance that when I want book x, it will be in existence.
The illegal agency pricing conspiracy reduced Amazon's book market share, and that share doesn't seem to have bounced back to where it was. For me, as a reader, I think the publishers' violation of law worked.