DOJ widens anti-trust optical drive probe
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On Monday, Sony's US optical drive subsidiary said it was being investigated by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in connection with anti-trust activities in the optical drive market. The net has now widened to include Toshiba and Hitachi.
Japan's Nikkei English News has reported that both Hitachi and Toshiba's US-based optical drive businesses are being looked at by the DOJ. The two companies involved are Hitachi-LG Data Storage and Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology, and both have received subpoenas. Together with Sony Optiarc they account for almost two thirds of the US optical drive market.
This widening of the DOJ's net suggests that it's the DVD drive market that is being looked at rather than Sony's Blu-ray business.
Apparently the DOJ has been checking for cartel operations in the computer business for many months.
Last year it bust a cartel aimed at keeping LCD screen prices high, with three manufacturers fined more than half a billion dollars. Hitachi and LG were involved in that scam and were fined. Is there another cartel worm in the Hitachi and LG can? ®
COMMENTS
@Bassey
Well I would tend to agree with you on this but. . .
The browsers are being investigated because someone (Opera) somewhere have bitched long and loud about M$'s bundling of the browser with their operating system. For some reason this is seen as anti-competitive due in part to the fact that M$ currently have, oh damn, I just checked and IE isnt the top browser anymore.*
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
They only have 40%** market share and supposedly FF has 47%**. Guess its time to have Opera look at Mozilla for illegally making a browser that competes with theirs. . .
Well this is certainly interesting.
*Cant be 100% sure of the statistics but they cant be that far off.
**Rounded up because Im being lazy
/Grabs the marshmellows
Im ready to be flamed now Opera users
Weird
So we get investigations into the Browser market (browsers are free) and the DVD drive market (you can pick up a DVD player for about £15). I'm not suggesting there is nothing dodgy going on but it does seem like they want to be seen to be doing something rather than actually investigating markets that might help consumers.
Hell yes!
I've died and gone to a country where government works!
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