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Originally Posted by rcentros
So what are you whining about? The publishers plea bargained and served their "sentence." Apple just got their sentence -- they still have to serve it. If that's inconvenient for their Big 5 cohorts, oh well, so be it. Tough. Maybe they shouldn't have colluded in the first place, eh?
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Standard rhetorical device. When the facts don't support you, then appeal to emotion. It's not "whining" when one points out facts. What the big 5 are appealing is that Judge Cote is for all practical purposes violating the settlement that she signed.
BTW, it's not plea bargaining when a company doesn't admit guilt. None of the big 5 ever admitted any guilt and several have said that what they discussed, i.e. the agency model, is not per se illegal and the only reason they agreed to the settlement is the risk was too high. If they had lost the case, several would have been driven into bankruptcy. An out of court settlement and plea bargaining are two very different things.