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Originally Posted by ApK
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Then I would like to politely ask what you think is the illegal part in the collusion.
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The collusion to set prices, as we agree. |
That is BS, and you know it. You are evading my question, and you know it.
We did not agree that the collusion itself was what made the collusion illegal. Saying that the collusion is what made the collusion illegal does not even make any sense. We agreed that:
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All colluding to set the prices was the bad part!
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Yes, let us agree on that. |
What was bad? To set prices together (collusion). Why is setting prices bad? Price fixing is illegal. What did they do to price fix? Blackmail Amazon into signing a contract with bad terms for Amazon. How did they have the power to blackmail? They uniformly confronted Amazon with a deadline (the day the Apple ebook store opened) to either accept no discount agency pricing and be able to stay in ebooks or stay with the wholesale model and defacto lose ebook business. Why did Amazon agree? Self preservation by picking the lesser of two evils. Who had the idea? Steve Jobs said that prices will be the same. How? MFN clause to allow Apple to discount to the lowest competitor price while still keeping the same profit margin. Did the publishers like the MFN clause? No, they fought tooth and nail. Did the publishers admit they were guilty? No, they settled to avoid going to court.