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Old 12-16-2014, 09:58 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
What difference does Amazon's percentage of the market make when Apple and the Publishers illegally collude to set prices -- which is what anti-trust is all about.
I wonder if the law is worded clearly enough to know what it is all about.

The federal conviction rate, generally, is 99 percent:

http://open.salon.com/blog/barry60x/...er_one_percent

But anti-trust is an exception, with acquittals being common:

http://antitrustcommentary.com/?p=201

It seems like this is an area of US law where outcomes are hard to predict. Not that's there's any harm in predicting here.

P.S. Given the tremendously high federal conviction rate, I wonder if defendants might have a better chance at appeal than at an initial trial. Of course, this is civil litigation and my links are mostly about criminal. And the government does usually win at every level. Apple is, just this once, an underdog.

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