marbux <> wrote:
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>Under antitrust law, the "audience" is the range of
>consumers whose needs will be fulfilled by the market
>created by the standard to be developed....
>If we don't have that as an agreed goal, the
>criminal penalty exposure is up to 10 years in federal
>prison and/or a $1 million fine per participant.
>The civil liability exposure is treble the damages
>of all co-conspirators' acts, with each
>co-conspirator liable for the entire amount individually.
I'm just an interested lurker, and I'm not a lawyer, but
this sounds like FUD to me.
