[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

[R. G. Newbury]

John Drescher wrote:
>>
>> Let's see, the CATV operators trying to rent DVRs, all the TV
>> advertisers, ad agencies, the DVD distribution folks, the Movie Studios,
>> The newspapers who sometimes get subscriptions from people just for a
>> "better" TV channel guide (and remember that TMS is, after all, really
>> newspaper people), the retail stores selling DVDs, Netflix, Microsoft,
>> and I'm sure many others.
>>
> 
> If one of these stipulated in a contract that we should no longer get 
> access
> to this data I guarantee we will not be able to get these listings even if
> several thousand of us band together and use that buying power as they 
> would
> not want to violate their contract with the larger customer.
> 
> John

Can you spell 'Sherman' as in Sherman Act? That would be, in my view, 
clearly a restraint on trade and an violation of the Act.

But then I've never even read the Sherman Act..but I have read a lot of 
case law about it, including DoJ v Microsoft where the effect of MS 
requiring, as a condition of contracting with an OEM, that the OEM pay 
the MS 'license' fee for every computer shipped, was discussed at some 
length. As well as other aspects of their anti-competitive dealings..

Geoff

I am not a US antitrust lawyer...