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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Repeatably saying something doesn't make it true.
From the FTC website
Price fixing is an agreement (written, verbal, or inferred from conduct) among competitors that raises, lowers, or stabilizes prices or competitive terms.
Agency Model or Agency Pricing is when the whole seller (or publisher in this case) sets the price and the retailer gets a fee for each item sold.
The courts have found that the Agency Model is perfectly legal.
For it to be price fixing, the publishers would have had to agree to set the prices at a given price. That, of course, did not happen.
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#1
The courts saying it's true, makes it true.
The courts saying the publishers agreed to set prices at a given price, makes it true.
The courts finding that Apple's and publishers' behavior was illegal, makes it true.
#2
Stop repeating the definition of Agency Pricing as though we don't know what it means. Repeatedly claiming that "[it] did not happen", doesn't make that true, and your repeated thinly veiled attempts to cast doubt on everyone else in the thread by quoting the definition of Agency Pricing
as though clarifying the definition will make people agree with you that that is all that went on, got really tiresome months and months ago.
tl;dr