 ThrowDemsOutIf you can't convince 'em, confuse 'emPremium
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1 edit | said by Jim Gurd:said by ThrowDemsOut:without the power to force Hollywood to stop offering their programs only in packages(like ESPN; ESPN2; ESPNC; etc.), his a la carte advocacy is going nowhere. IANAL but doesn't this amount to illegal product tying? They're forcing you to buy something else in order to get what you really want. As best that I can determine, not being a lawyer either, "tying" is illegal at a federal level when it is used by firms ruled to be a monopoly(very very few anymore, MS was the last one I can recall). There are state laws against tying, but those only apply to companies NOT in interstate commerce(very few anymore, the feds rule just about all commerce). So what you are saying is correct, but it would be prosecuted by the Anti-Trust Div of the Dept of Justice. And they have shown little interest in pursuing anti-trust cases since they went after Microsoft.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_%28commerce%29
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