RAM Manufacturers Fined for Price Fixing

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 22, 2005 @08:44AM from the coincidences-pile-up dept.

TufelKinder writes "From Law.com: 'In the largest fine ever obtained by San Francisco antitrust prosecutors, a Korean company has agreed to plead guilty and pay $185 million for its role in a conspiracy to drive up the price of computer chips.' Micron and Infineon have also been fined for their role in the scheme." From the article: "It's the third-largest fine of its kind in the United States, and it could be just a preview of even bigger penalties. The far-reaching computer chip investigation, which alleges wrongdoing from 1999 through 2002, affects thousands of consumers."

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Re:Thanks a lot.... by AKAImBatman · 2005-04-22 09:18 · Score: 0, Redundant

Enforcing DMCA litigation in San Francisco.

I call FUD. This issue has nothing to do with the DCMA and everything to do with illegal, anti-competitive practices. Price fixing is when companies get together to agree on an artificially inflated price, just so that their competition with each other doesn't drive prices down. This is *highly* illegal and doesn't involve copyrights in any way.

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