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Re:Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give ... by filoleg on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @05:50PM (#27453715)
Cool, so does that mean that Sony/MSFT/Nintendo should be sued for anti-monopoly here too, given that they take over 15% for game-related transactions?

Because my question was less about "how things should ideally be", and more about "how much legal scrutiny can this legal case withstand".

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Re:Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give ... by mschuster91 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @05:56PM (#27453783)
> more about "how much legal scrutiny can this legal case withstand".

That is entirely a question of jurisdiction. The US is famous for its deregulation, usury only covers loan interest rates - whereas in Germany the limit in §138 BGB is something that is "obviously not in a fair relationship between the payment and the value received for it", plus our whole anti-trust regulation.

The German Bundeskartellamt is already prosecuting the big tech companies, the EU anti-trust agencies also have woken up from their slumber... we will see.

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