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To: Insitu who wrote (44211)	5/3/2000 6:06:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (3) of 74651

Under our current law I don't think it matters how the monopoly is achieved. It only matters that the monopolist act differently once the monopoly is achieved. So, a successful company has to stop doing what made it successful after it hits a point, determined in retrospect during a court case, where it is a monopoly. In other words, a company's actions suddenly become illegal without any change in action or intent until those actions are suddenly declared in the future as having been illegal in the past, at which point the company can't retroactively undo them. Additionally, there's no way to know how your market will be defined in said case so while you may be fighting for your life in a wider market you can be found to be a monopolist in a much narrower market and now you're prohibited from aggressive competition in the wider market, too. Sounds fair to me. I still say that if a law of this nature were being applied to a natural person instead of a corporation then the ACLU would be all over this.

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