Selling people the order book for Item Z is a business that exists for every value of Z, but if you do it for apartments suddenly everyone freaks out.
By the way, the market-clearing price of eggs is a government service that comes out every day.
By the way, the market-clearing price of eggs is a government service that comes out every day.
> The investigation found that RealPage’s pricing software provides landlords with a shared logic that tends to raise rents. Two types of RealPage’s pricing software collect nonpublic, competitively sensitive data from landlords to feed the algorithms. Landlords who use RealPage software agree to provide their data, knowing that the software combines their data with data from other landlords. The algorithm then recommends rents — in many cases increasing them. In feedback to RealPage about its software, one potential client said: “I always liked this product because your algorithm uses proprietary data from other subscribers to suggest rents and term. That’s classic price fixing.” https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/washington-ag-says...
Just "distributing marketplace data".
Anyway, I feel like this thread reinforces my point. We are arguing about the merits of the case. We are not arguing about whether their obviously illegal behavior is okay because it's software.