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are you under the impression that the hollywood studios published an actual blacklist and openly admitted to collusion?

They didn't do that, just like the tech giants are not doing that now, as they take the same action at the same time against the same target.

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> are you under the impression that the hollywood studios published an actual blacklist and openly admitted to collusion?

Neither publication not open admission are necessary for a combination in restraint of trade to be illegal, and you'd usually want to avoid them since they make it much easier to prove.

yes but practically big businesses can get away with these types of things without much fuss. even in the case where Apple and Google were caught wage-fixing, and there were emails from the CEOs blatantly colluding to prove it, all they got was a slap on the wrist. So it's effectively legal in my view

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