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Originally Posted by murg
Jailing Apple executives for anti-trust violations would be an unpopular move. When you get right down to it, no one really cares about the Apple executives.
Jailing executives serves as a warning to other executives to not commit anti-trust violations. I ending up in jail is a viable result of an executive's proposed business strategy, that strategy will be adjusted until that risk goes away.
And don't think that Apple executives are safe from this. They are currently in the anti-trust doghouse, and if they are found guilty of a different one (or even not cooperating with the original sentence), the judge may decide to really drive home society's displeasure with such behaviour.
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The Earth will orbit the Moon before that happens, I think
It's instrumental to note that both the eBook and these music allegations deal with parts of Apples business that aren't even core to it's existence.
And as long as it's the small potatoes parts of its businesses, US judges will continue to render small potatoes responses to any convictions for wrongdoing.