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To: Michael L. Voorhees who wrote (44386)	5/5/2000 7:02:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 74651

Being a monopoly is not illegal, using that monopoly in an illegal matter, as outlined by the Sherman Antitrust Law, is illegal. Is it really that difficult to understand? If a company is not a monopoly a set of actions is legal but if it is a monopoly that exact same set of actions is illegal. If a company is dominant in its field and is taking those actions it is impossible for the company to know for certain at that time if it is acting illegally because it is impossible to know in advance if the company would be ruled a monopoly in a future anti-trust case. Is it really that difficult to understand? The only option for the company is to restrain itself long before it would have to in order to be sure it's not breaking the law. The ACLU crowd always cries out about laws with this type of "chilling effect", but since businesses are capitalistic and therefore evil money grubbers to these people it's perfectly acceptable to them.