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Re:Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data ... by brookst on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:53PM (#42776439)
Fun fact: it’s only illegal to leverage a monopoly in one market to advance another. It’s perfectly legal for Coke to leverage their large but not monopolistic soft drink empire to advance their bottled water entries.
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Re:Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data ... by pdpi on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @01:41AM (#42777240)
Sure. The whole thing hinges on whether Google has a monopoly on whatever Google Books' market is (hence why I doubted it would stick). But given that some people seem to define "market" broadly enough to conclude that Apple has a monopoly on iPhones...
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