Re: [ga] RE: Antitrust Violations: Fact versus Fiction

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

if the participants are in the US and are participants in a "market" and
they are not acting at the goverment's direction, and they engage in
concerted action to contraol the market in a way that restrains
competition and if a small number of exceptions don't apply, then they are
violating section 1 of the Sherman Act.

I suggest you try reading the paper.

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 eric@hi-tek.com wrote:

> Wow,
> 
> For US anti-trust law it matters not how you characterize the subject of the
> enterprise?
> Steel, Microsoft, cars, Bar Associations, Telephone companies, Utility
> companies, hardware stores, and stock traders and satellites, telegraphs and
> railroads and baseball are all handled the same?
> Wow!  Damn those Roosevelts, they sure fooled me.  Oh and that guy Cordoza,
> and Brandeis and Marshall, shoot they were just playing.  Do you have a
> correspondence course so I could learn more of this revisionist history
> lesson?  I did not notice that common law and civil law through out precedence
> when the Internet was established.
> Come on, whether the internet is a USG resource, a commodity or a service and
> whether it is vital to national and international security and whether it will
> work without consolidation are  the core questions, you ivory tower guys just
> avoid it.  Why not define it?
> e
> 
> "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" wrote:
> 
> > <much snippage>
> > For US anti-trust law it matters not how you characterize "the Internet",
> > only how you characterize various relationships among the parties, so for
> > this purpose we don't need to get into the deep waters you wish us to swim
> > in.
> >
> 
> 

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