US Federal Government to require MSIE for copyright preregistration

[Mike McCarty]

Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>> Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 09:33 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>>
>>>> Erm, I believe it was in the EU that Microsoft got convicted, not
>>>> in the USA.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> They were convicted in the USA _first_ then in the _EU_ as well.
>>
>>
>> Define convicted. They agreed to pay a fine without admitting any
>> wrong doing. At most, it would be a tort, anyway, not a conviction.
> 
> 
> Violations of the sherman antitrust act (things like price fixing and 
> market allocation) can be crimnally prosecuted (by the justice dept, the 
> ftc an bring civil action).

Of course they can. What I heard about was the lawsuit. The news reports
are often somewhat vague... I got the impression that a lawsuit
prevailed.

Well, live and learn. Not the first time I've been wrong...

So I guess they were convicted. (Sorry, I cut the uk website, and
can't paste it back.)

Mike
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