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Originally Posted by pwalker8
In regards to anti-trust, no Judge Cote was not suppose to ignore Amazon. The market situation is a very, very important part of anti-trust law. At the time, Amazon controlled 90 percent of the market. If the decision is overturned or returned to a lower court, I would expect the failure to consider the market situation at the time to be a major part of the decision to overturn.
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Okay, to belabor the point even more...
NO!
The market situation is a very, very important part of... a different case altogether. The case where Amazon is brought to court for antitrust violations in regards to unfairly dominating the ebook market.
That is where you may discuss whether or not something may or should be done about Amazon.
Regarding Apple -- they cannot absolve themselves of an illegal act by saying someone else did an illegal act first.
That is taking the law into their own hands, something the law frowns upon -- and rightly so.