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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Are you claiming that Amazon's white paper got the same level of attention as some missive from Joe the Plummer? According to the article, much of the Government's narrative was lifted from Amazon's white paper. Crony capitalism is basically government doing favors for a company. Extending the copyright law to make sure that Mickey never goes out of copyright is crony capitalism.
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I asked for evidence, not speculation.
Perhaps the DOJ would have responded to a similar complaint made by Joe the Plumber, if that complain described a real, substantive issue. The fact that the DOJ acted on a complaint, and applied the legal analysis of the complainant (after conducting its own analysis) isn't evidence of crony capitalism, just evidence that Amazon's complaint highlighted a substantive breach of the law and their lawyers did a good job in describe the current state of the law.
Evidently there must have been some merit in Amazon's complaint, since a judge agreed that illegal collusion on he part of the publishers had occurred. Or was the judge also doing favours for Amazon?
From this thread, I think we've all learned that "crony capitalism", means someone you don't like getting a favourable result at court, regardless of the facts or merits of the case.