The remedy is to have the five major domestic U.S. manufacturers disgorge the illegal profits that they've made over the decades that we allege that they engaged in these illegal, anticompetitive activities,
Quotes about anticompetitive (16 Quotes)
The law provides that companies cannot get together and pool their copyright and use them for anticompetitive purposes, ... Only about 2 percent of musical artists are signed to record label contracts. Napster enables the other 98 percent to reach audience and compete with record labels.
The FTC has been and remains vigilant regarding anticompetitive conduct in this industry.
Not only is this anticompetitive -- it's illegal. It's illegal because a monopoly, under antitrust law, is prohibited from engaging in anticompetitive -- not to mention anti-consumer -- business practices designed to maintain their monopoly position.
They (the government) are clearly trying to lay the foundation not only for the browser market but also to allege a pattern of anticompetitive behavior by Microsoft against a whole series of competitors, not just Netscape.
I do not think it is any benefit for artists or fans to have all the new, wide distribution channels in the online world controlled by those who have controlled the old, narrower ones, ... This is especially true if they achieve that control by leveraging their dominance in content or conduit space in an anticompetitive way to control the new, independent music services that are attempting to enhance the consumer's experience of music.
Today's decision represents a very significant victory for the antitrust division on the core claim in the Microsoft case that Microsoft engaged in anticompetitive conduct to preserve its monopoly position in computer operating systems.
In North Dakota, shippers are at the mercy of a railroad monopoly that sets rates in an anticompetitive manner, ... This unfair practice costs our producers millions, and there is no reason that railroads should have this monopoly status protected under law. This legislation will ensure that railroads play by the same rules as any other business, which will increase competition and help lower shipping prices.
The antitrust division is looking into the possibility of anticompetitive practices in the music download industry.
Those who have been claiming that the DMCA does not threaten reverse engineering are plainly wrong, ... The DMCA has become a powerful anticompetitive tool, and that means consumers will see fewer innovative products in the marketplace.
You have the entire history of the big phone companies trying to avoid orders by regulatory commissions to open their networks to competition. You have the entire history of ATT's efforts to avoid court orders and FCC Federal Communications Commission orders. You have a whole historical thing with the telecommunications industry of exclusive dealing, anticompetitive dealing -- anything they can dream up to screw their competitors.
If we get consumer complaints about (gasoline) prices, we'll look at those complaints to find evidence of anticompetitive conduct.
It's not a yes or no that it will get scuttled, but the risk of its getting scuttled is up in the 60 to 70 range. In my opinion, there are several anticompetitive effects on consumers and I think there is a high risk that the DOJ will say Whirlpool will be able to raise prices and consumers won't have any choices.
The claims that anticompetitive behavior has contributed to recent gasoline price increases, nationally and in the Midwest, are without any factual basis.
You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.
While legacy telecom companies scramble to find a balance, some analysts believe they're employing their traditional economic clout to slow things down to their liking. Incumbents say that unregulated companies will drive them out of business, that it renders their model instantly obsolete and provides no protection for them, ... They claim that they need legislation to slow the process down and give them a chance to compete. It's kind of ironic since they've been so anticompetitive all of their lives.