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Originally Posted by kane
Apples and oranges. You can still get your Taylor Swift record anywhere, you just can't get the deluxe edition unless you go to target. Same with the Bieber video. You can get it, you just have to watch it on Facebook. No anti-trust here, you are just grasping for straws and trying to find new ways to give away content.
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standard oil didn't completely shut out the competing gas stations they only short supplied them, you could still get gas at all those stations (they just ran out).
so the fact that you could get the same exact gas from the non standard oil gas stations doesn't invalid the anti trust nature of standard oils short supplying them.
But a complete out right ban of a particular version of content is not
how fucking stupid are you.
it exactly the same action, the record company is choosing one provider over another in the DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL. That medium selection period. two companies are colluding together to extend one monopoly (copyright or oil) into another market (streaming video distribution or gasoline).