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Originally Posted by eschwartz
MFN clauses are all of a sudden a shady business practice . . .
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Their concern with MFN clauses
goes back to at least May 2002. That doesn't seem sudden to me. Or are you saying that, at some date in the past, whether May 2002 or earlier, when the EU authorities first started being concerned with MFN clauses involving companies with high market share, it was, at that time, sudden?
The first time a law is enforced, it is, almost by definition, sudden. So what?
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
once it suits the EU drive to persecute non-EU companies for being successful, and I find that incredibly funny in a sad way.
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It is in the nature of competition law that the rules are different if you are successful.
As for persecution, under the
law being invoked here, you can't be sent to prison. They can't even wake Jeff Bezos up
in the middle of the night to serve process, as happens (not sure if they do it for antitrust) in Amazon's home market. It may be that you have a different idea of persecution than I do.
As for your claim that EU companies are treated differently from ones headquartered elsewhere, maybe it is because no EU retailer has Amazon's literature market share. This idea of EU perfidy seems to me an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Not in the legal sense, as I do not consider it legally problematic.
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You don't, but European lawyers differ:
http://www.eu-competitionlaw.com/low...me-under-fire/
I realize that my link immediately above is a low-key advertisement. However, I doubt that the factual material there is wrong. Amazon does have a legal problem.