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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Most democracies have some kind of competition laws roughly comparable to US antitrust. If this was one of the most blatant cases ever seen, I think you would see Apple losing in France and Germany the same way it is losing in the US.
Apple is guilty of doing something in the US that it would be essentially illegal not to do in France and Germany. This is course doesn't prove that publishers should set minimum prices. But it does kindda suggest that, morally, it's not a slam-dunk Standard Oil kind of case.
If this goes to the Supreme Court, it could be more interesting. Aren't most of the justices published authors? And the ones who aren't, probably are considering it! If so, they have a financial interest. But they can't all recuse themselves.
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This case has almost nothing to do with the prices and everything to do with the evidence of a conspiracy. Usually, conspiracies are proved in a much more round about way. What I think is dramatic in this case is the amount of direct evidence showing a conspiracy between Apple and the publishers.