Wal-Mart Blocks Online Movie Sales
Daryl
Walmart is trying to use it's power to stop this. It's another
case of Walmart acting like what it is, it's become a Monopoly.
Being the only one doesn't make you in violation of the AntiTrust
Acts. But Acting like one does.
Here is a nice article showing Walley World as the bully they
really are.
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/report-walmart-blocks-online-movie-sales_1009013
Wal-Mart may be single-handedly blocking the major studios from
selling their movies on Apple's iTunes online store, the New York
Post indicated today (Friday). "We all want to be in the Apple
business," an unnamed executive at a major studio told the Post,
noting that Apple's pricing -- $9.99 to $12.99 -- is lower than
Wal-Mart's. According to the newspaper which cited other studio
executives, Wal-Mart has sent "cases and cases" of DVDs back to
Disney, the only studio selling movies on the iTunes site, and
has threatened to retaliate if other studios do business with
Apple. "They threatened to hurt us in terms of buying less [sic]
products," a source told the Post.
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j...@xmission.com
> Right now, the online Movie Sales #1 is Apple. It appears that Walmart
> is trying to use it's power to stop this. It's another case of Walmart
> acting like what it is, it's become a Monopoly. Being the only one
> doesn't make you in violation of the AntiTrust Acts. But Acting like one
> does.
>
> Here is a nice article showing Walley World as the bully they really are.
>
> http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/report-walmart-blocks-online-movie-sales_1009013
I see, but when Apple blocks a lot of companies from doing business with
apple customers without their permission, even interfering with apps
that it doesn't approve of, that's fine.
Walmart is involved in a fight for business. It is NOT a monopoly. A
monopoly is a single entity that controls a market, not one that engages
in practices to try to increase its business. Get someone at the library
to find you a dictionary.
Daryl
> On 8/5/2011 8:47 PM, Daryl wrote:
>> Right now, the online Movie Sales #1 is Apple. It appears that
>> Walmart
>> is trying to use it's power to stop this. It's another case of
>> Walmart
>> acting like what it is, it's become a Monopoly. Being the only one
>> doesn't make you in violation of the AntiTrust Acts. But Acting
>> like one
>> does.
>>
>> Here is a nice article showing Walley World as the bully they
>> really are.
>>
>> http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/report-walmart-blocks-online-movie-sales_1009013
>>
>
> I see, but when Apple blocks a lot of companies from doing
> business with apple customers without their permission, even
> interfering with apps that it doesn't approve of, that's fine.
Apple has a lock on their Operating System. Not the equipment
that plugs into it or even the computer itself. You can install
OSX on ANY PC but Apple doesn't license it that way. This way,
Apple can pretty well dictate the equipment because if it's not
compatible with their OS then it won't work. This is the way
they control the Hardware. Yes, Microsoft got popped for the
same actions. But maybe you need to know what an AntiTrust Act
really is. It has nothing to do with what you typed below.
>
> Walmart is involved in a fight for business. It is NOT a
> monopoly. A monopoly is a single entity that controls a market,
> not one that engages in practices to try to increase its
> business. Get someone at the library to find you a dictionary.
AntiTrust is confused with Monopoly. You can have a Monopoly and
be within the law. Nothing wrong with being the only one.
Monopoly isn't illegal if you don't act like one.
In Microsoft's case, they acted like a Monopoly and had over 95%
of the market already. I won't go into the list of their
infractions but it's pretty long where they screwed many, many
companies out of their software or used their Power to crush them
and buy them at bargain basement prices. No, they weren't a
Monopoly but they acted like one. And rarely escaped the old
Standard Oil treatment who also was not a Monopoly. Had they
been a European Company, the Upper Level Management would have
been working at the corner convenience store.
While Apple is the #1 Online sales for movies and music, Walmart
dwarfs them in sales. Walmart is the #1 direct sales AND the #1
in all sales. No Distribution company can survive if they don't
do business with Walmart. Just as the various Coffee Machine
Manufacturers can't survive unless they are selling at Walmart.
Walmart is every inch in violation of the AntiTrust acts as
anyone ever was. Thompson was making their wares in Tennessee.
They are the parent company for Sanyo and RCA. They were the
last TV Manufacturer in the United States. Walmart sent them a
message that they were going to pay X dollars per unit. Thompson
stated that they could not make them for that. Walmart's
response was, either sell it to us for that or we find someone
that will. Thompson exported their manufacturing to China to
meet that price.
This is only one of the things that Walmart pulled. To hell with
the Jobs lost. The bottom line is........
One of these days, an company is going to not put up with it any
longer and there is going to be a Federal case involved. It's
been long coming. When it happens, the Feds will have no choice
but to Standard Oil Walmart. Walley World makes John D look like
a Choir Boy. But it will take millions in Bribe.....er Campaign
contributions to offset the millions that Walmart does.
It's not about what or who is right.
John Doe
> jjs xmission.com wrote:
>> Walmart is involved in a fight for business. It is NOT a
>> monopoly. A monopoly is a single entity that controls a market,
>> not one that engages in practices to try to increase its
>> business. Get someone at the library to find you a dictionary.
>
> AntiTrust is confused with Monopoly. You can have a Monopoly
> and be within the law. Nothing wrong with being the only one.
> Monopoly isn't illegal if you don't act like one.
The courts call it "monopoly power". Microsoft did/does in fact
have monopoly power over the desktop operating system market. And
Microsoft did use its monopoly power in the way you described,
most notably by destroying Netscape in order to prevent
Navigator's Java from threatening the Windows monopoly. The reason
Microsoft got off without being harshly punished is because George
Bush Junior entered office in 2000. Junior's laissez-faire Justice
Department dropped the Microsoft antitrust case while it was in
the appeals process.
Good luck and have fun.
Daryl
I agree with what you wrote. We are now a Corporate Republic and
we have a long way to get it back to being a real republic.
I brought up MS because it's about the same as Walley World when
it comes to domination. I have seen their buyers in action.
There is no fear in them.
Two wrongs are still wrong.
Juan Anonly
> On 8/5/2011 8:47 PM, Daryl wrote:
>> Right now, the online Movie Sales #1 is Apple. It appears that Walmart
>> is trying to use it's power to stop this. It's another case of Walmart
>> acting like what it is, it's become a Monopoly. Being the only one
>> doesn't make you in violation of the AntiTrust Acts. But Acting like one
>> does.
>>
>> Here is a nice article showing Walley World as the bully they really are.
>>
>> http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/report-walmart-blocks-online-movie-sales_1009013
I
>>
> see, but when Apple blocks a lot of companies from doing business with
> apple customers without their permission, even interfering with apps
> that it doesn't approve of, that's fine.
There's too much sarcasm and not enough information to make any sense
of that statement.
> Walmart is involved in a fight for business. It is NOT a monopoly. A
> monopoly is a single entity that controls a market, not one that
> engages in practices to try to increase its business. Get someone at
> the library to find you a dictionary.
Right: The word is *predatory* not monopolistic. After a decade or
two, if being a predator works, THEN it's monopoly.
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-- Beware the delicate, tiny, very talented celebrity starlets.
Juan Anonly
> We are now a Corporate Republic and we have a long way to get it back
> to being a real republic.
When many average Americans are so brain-torqued that they fight for
slashing their own Medicare and Social Security, are against stimulus
money and affordable healthcare and still adamant that corporations pay
no more than they did in the 50's, then yes; we have a very long way to
come back.
In any less docile and less propaganda-addled culture, citizens would
have been in the streets burning cars three years ago.
Invid Fan
> On 8/5/2011 8:47 PM, Daryl wrote:
> > Right now, the online Movie Sales #1 is Apple. It appears that Walmart
> > is trying to use it's power to stop this. It's another case of Walmart
> > acting like what it is, it's become a Monopoly. Being the only one
> > doesn't make you in violation of the AntiTrust Acts. But Acting like one
> > does.
> >
> > Here is a nice article showing Walley World as the bully they really are.
> >
> >
> > http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/report-walmart-blocks-online-movi
> > e-sales_1009013
>
> I see, but when Apple blocks a lot of companies from doing business with
> apple customers without their permission, even interfering with apps
> that it doesn't approve of, that's fine.
>
So long as everyone knows this going in, then yes it's fine. Apple's
iOS products have to get software from the Apple Store, and Apple has
the right to control what the store sells. However, if Apple in any way
linked access to the App Store with if a company also sold Android
versions they'd be sued and lose in an instant. That's what Walmart
appears to be doing here.
--
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'Invid Fan' - 'Yokai Monsters Along With Ghosts'
Daryl
No, what Walley World is doing is telling a company not to sell
to another company. It has nothing to do with an OS. It has to
do with Disney selling to Apple. When a company can start
dictating to Disney (who is huge itself) who they can and can't
sell using a format that Walmart doesn't own then this is against
the AntiTrust acts and the best interest of the United States.
Shoot, against the best interests of the World.
Invid Fan
<dh...@nospami70west3.com> wrote:
> On 8/6/2011 11:00 AM, Invid Fan wrote:
> > In article<j1ieco$ohn$1...@news.xmission.com>,<j...@xmission.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 8/5/2011 8:47 PM, Daryl wrote:
> >>> Right now, the online Movie Sales #1 is Apple. It appears that Walmart
> >>> is trying to use it's power to stop this. It's another case of Walmart
> >>> acting like what it is, it's become a Monopoly. Being the only one
> >>> doesn't make you in violation of the AntiTrust Acts. But Acting like one
> >>> does.
> >>>
> >>> Here is a nice article showing Walley World as the bully they really are.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/report-walmart-blocks-online-mo
> >>> vi
> >>> e-sales_1009013
> >>
> >> I see, but when Apple blocks a lot of companies from doing business with
> >> apple customers without their permission, even interfering with apps
> >> that it doesn't approve of, that's fine.
> >>
> > So long as everyone knows this going in, then yes it's fine. Apple's
> > iOS products have to get software from the Apple Store, and Apple has
> > the right to control what the store sells. However, if Apple in any way
> > linked access to the App Store with if a company also sold Android
> > versions they'd be sued and lose in an instant. That's what Walmart
> > appears to be doing here.
> >
>
> No, what Walley World is doing is telling a company not to sell
> to another company. It has nothing to do with an OS.
But it's the same idea. If Apple said if you want to sell something in
the Apple store you can't also have a version for sale in the Android
store, it would be the equivalent of what Walmart is doing.
Daryl
> In article<j1kfi4$2h3$1...@dont-email.me>, Daryl
Apple owns the OS for their equipment and licenses to companies
to build them. They have every right to limit where those are sold.
On the other hand, Tashiba owns the rights to the DVD. Or is it
Sony. The format used is owned by IBM. Nowhere in the
manufacturing or the creation of the Content Matter does Walmarts
name come up. They are a reseller only.
The two are not remotely the same.
Just out of curiousity, are you a Walmart Representative?
Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy
news:j1l5eg$o1d$1...@dont-email.me:
> Just out of curiousity, are you a Walmart Representative?
>
You really are a retard, aren't you? (That's a rhetorical question,
son. That means - I'm sure you don't know the word, there's so many
you aren't familiar with) that I already know the answer (and the
answer is "yes").
Do you have a brother named Larry, by any chance? And another brother
named Daryl?
--
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Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole. - David
Bilek
Yeah, I had Terry confused with Hannibal Lecter. - Mike Schilling
Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
Daryl
> Daryl<dh...@nospami70west3.com> wrote in
> news:j1l5eg$o1d$1...@dont-email.me:
>
>> Just out of curiousity, are you a Walmart Representative?
>>
> You really are a retard, aren't you? (That's a rhetorical question,
> son. That means - I'm sure you don't know the word, there's so many
> you aren't familiar with) that I already know the answer (and the
> answer is "yes").
Spoken like a true representative. I would expect no less (or more)
>
> Do you have a brother named Larry, by any chance? And another brother
> named Daryl?
>
Comon, if you are going to troll, troll.
Now, get back under that culvert since you aren't a rich enough
troll to afford a bridge.
Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy
news:j1lhv3$h52$1...@dont-email.me:
> On 8/6/2011 11:47 PM, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
>> Daryl<dh...@nospami70west3.com> wrote in
>> news:j1l5eg$o1d$1...@dont-email.me:
>>
>>> Just out of curiousity, are you a Walmart Representative?
>>>
>> You really are a retard, aren't you? (That's a rhetorical
>> question, son. That means - I'm sure you don't know the word,
>> there's so many you aren't familiar with) that I already know
>> the answer (and the answer is "yes").
>
> Spoken like a true representative. I would expect no less (or
> more)
QED. Retarded retards retarding retardedly.
>
>>
>> Do you have a brother named Larry, by any chance? And another
>> brother named Daryl?
>>
> Comon, if you are going to troll, troll.
>
> Now, get back under that culvert since you aren't a rich enough
> troll to afford a bridge.
>
How's Bob doing these days? Is he still doing the Librarian movies?
Invid Fan
<dh...@nospami70west3.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiousity, are you a Walmart Representative?
A Walmart rep would reply to a post claiming Apple was just as bad as
Walmart by saying no, if they were here is what Apple would be doing?
One of us isn't communicating well, and I'm more then willing to take
the blame :)