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Originally Posted by jj20x
Again, nothing to do with the discussion. Such activities should indeed be embraced and Sky's unique mixture of HBO content and other miscellaneous content would be a good way of doing that. They could have done that without preventing HBO from supplying their content to other platforms.
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They didn't. HBO entered into an agreement of their own free will. That's how the free market works.
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Originally Posted by jj20x
It's merely a more extreme example of a company forming a cartel to control supply and distort the market. As for being essential to individuals, I'm sure that back in the day, Norman Tebbit would have pointed out that bicycles are also available.  |
A single company can't form a cartel. Google it.
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Originally Posted by jj20x
The fuel example was only used as it was a better illustration a company attempting to control supply of a product than the previous supermarket based analogies.
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But it wasn't, was it?
