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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg

However, it's one thing to note that anti-trust is being used in this way, and another thing to show that there's something unfair here. Consider:

http://ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-...s-antitrust_en


US trustbusters not only go after foreign companies, they also sometimes -- unlike the EU -- send their executives to prison. I like the EU approach better.

But surely, if the law has decided that the companies have well and truly done something truly wrong, then it is only fitting that the people who were in charge suffer personal consequences?

Certainly, the companies themselves will not have a problem, all too often they will simply consider an anti-trust conviction the cost of doing business.
Unless the government is prepared to tear the company into individual bite-sized pieces, which isn't all that common... Fines alone aren't very scary.