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More than 140 years after the famous Civil War Battle of Chancellorsville, a new fight is brewing over a proposal to build a town on the
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After a U.S. District Court judged found Apple guilty of colluding with book publishers to fix the prices of e-books last month, it was unclear what the actual consequences would be for the iPad-maker. Well with little pomp or circumstance, the Department of Justice has just cleared that up, and it not good for Apple.
https://gizmodo/apple-guilty-of-price-fixing-730018979 Along with the 33 state attorneys general involved, the DOJ submitted a proposal on Friday that would require Apple to immediately terminate its agreements with the five book publishers it been working with since the launch of the iPad. It would also bar Apple from entering into any new agreements with publishers for five-years as well as entering into agreements with other content providers that would cause prices to rise. Perhaps most interesting, however, is that th
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