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Originally Posted by pwalker8
For the most part, I see anti-trust suits as government over reaches. It's pretty hard to maintain a monopoly or cartel for very long barring a government enforcing it. Markets tend to change too fast. Eventually, something will happen to either break Amazon's hold on the ebook market, just like the music market is slowly moving away from buying music to streaming music.
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Oh please. Name me one market of consumer goods that isn't heavily oligopolized, and that doesn't have 5-6 players controlling 70+% of market share (increasingly world-wide). As soon as companies become big enough (and well after the period during which investing in that market was actually 'risky'), they will start lobbying for IP legislation (extensions), for the raising of barriers of entry, etc., while at the same time buying up or undercutting smaller players, thus creating further concentration.
That aside, "eventually everyone dies/Something Will Happen" is just about the worst policy ever. (And as for the music industry, the big 3/4/5 players that are left are still as dominant as they were before, they're just raking in slightly less money at the moment than they used to be.)