Department of Justice Proposes Remedy to Address Apple’s Price Fixing
Remedy Would Require Apple to Terminate Agreements with Five Publishers; Provide for a Court-Appointed External Monitor; Allow Competitors to Provide Links from Their E-Book Apps to Their E-Bookstores
The Department of Justice and 33 State Attorneys General today submitted to the court a proposed remedy to address Apple Inc.’s illegal conduct, following the July 10, 2013, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York decision finding that Apple conspired to fix the prices of e-books in the United States. The proposed relief is intended to halt Apple’s anticompetitive conduct, restore lost competition and prevent a recurrence of the illegal activities.
“The court found that Apple’s illegal conduct deprived consumers of the benefits of e-book price competition and forced them to pay substantially higher prices,” said Bill Baer, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. “Under the department’s proposed order, Apple’s illegal conduct will cease and Apple and its senior executives will be prevented from conspiring to thwart competition in the future.”
The department’s proposal, if approved by the court, will require Apple to terminate its existing agreements with the five major publishers with which it conspired – Hachette Book Group (USA), HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C., Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC, which does business as Macmillan, Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Simon & Schuster Inc. – and to refrain for five years from entering new e-book distribution contracts which would restrain Apple from competing on price. Under the department’s proposed remedy, Apple will be prohibited from again serving as a conduit of information among the conspiring publishers or from retaliating against publishers for refusing to sell e-books on agency terms. Apple will also be prohibited from entering into agreements with suppliers of e-books, music, movies, television shows or other content that are likely to increase the prices at which Apple’s competitor retailers may sell that content. To reset competition to the conditions that existed before the conspiracy, Apple must also for two years allow other e-book retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble to provide links from their e-book apps to their e-bookstores, allowing consumers who purchase and read e-books on their iPads and iPhones easily to compare Apple’s prices with those of its competitors.
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AHHHHHH
Bless your heart.
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Also @Deebaser quit shitting on my PoliSci degree damn you.
"Poli Sci"? Moar like "Poopy Sty", amirite?
Nah, I kid, without my poli sci degree I wouldn't have ever known how many cossacks or khalissars or whatever are in the Duma. Ten Years ago I totally knew that!
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its like an lsd nightmare came to life.
Waaaaay cheaper than LSD.
You've never used LSD.
http://31.media.tumblr.com/1d30b23dab2065d8feb371c0b0f05e02/tumblr_mopjov2Lke1swdyn1o1_500.gif
Oh is this your first brush with Cyriak? Allow me to add to the experience!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavUpD_IjVY
My entire experience of LSD is the "Test Mice" picture with the rainbows everyone used to post.
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/August/13-at-877.html
Department of Justice Proposes Remedy to Address Apple’s Price Fixing
AHHHHHH
the scoodenfroody
The cows one was good, but it was simply weird. Kitty City made me laugh while also being afraid.
Brain/eyes/conception of reality is defective.
Time for a new one.
Also @Deebaser quit shitting on my PoliSci degree damn you.
I saw a live action Adventure Time ad in a movie theater once that made me feel like I was on drugs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(film)
was that the one with the kids
where the bearded kid vaporized another kid
It was the one with the weird stuff.
Would be a shame if it got all dogged up
The cows don't make you afraid??
the hulk pug sucks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtKJCIeozQ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQO-aOdJLiw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgZhA2bIfgA
This one?
What are your thoughts on this first-timer's reactions?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDTsZn-eM5g
he's just grumpy
"Bro get with it you're ruining this for us."
"You wouldn't like me... when I'm Crunk."
"Poli Sci"? Moar like "Poopy Sty", amirite?
Nah, I kid, without my poli sci degree I wouldn't have ever known how many cossacks or khalissars or whatever are in the Duma. Ten Years ago I totally knew that!
Thanks Political Science!
I went to the doctor, but because it was after 5pm, they couldn't clear my insurance
so I paid up-front ($550) and now I need to get reimbursed
fucccckkkkk thiiiiissssssss
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I remember that everyone loved it for, like, a week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuWTQtyKih4
What the fuck? that is some weak as shit