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Depending on how the legislation is written, this is a problem for Apple. Any reasonable person, presented with the facts -- before and after Apple "insisted" on the agency model -- must conclude that pricing of e-books from several leading vendors is no longer "free" and is, in fact, tied to contractual obligations which, miraculously, contain the same coercive rules applied to vendors. Apple's vulnerability is the openly blatant public stand it took.
Free enterprise at work? Free market mechanics? Or consumer gouging among members of a closed club? I don't think it's a slam dunk one way or the other ... the details will matter. One can smell the smoke ... even if the gun cannot be (conveniently) located.
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