You make it sound as if they performed a service--a benign act of civil disobedience to stop a monster that the law couldn't/wouldn't touch. I can assure you their motives were not charitable in any way. They gambled on a legally unsound, and altogether selfish move to wrest back power that they voluntarily gave away through complacency in the first place. And if forcing the still undefeated king of ebooks to make even MORE money outselling circles around everyone else (not to mention subsidizing the college funds of their own legal department's children) was part of their goal.... then congrats! The gamble was certainly well worth it.
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