Re:And this effects.... (Score 1)

Question: Can the paradigm of breaking up a monopoly even be used properly any more? I believe we will have to think of better ways to increase competition besides smacking down a corporation. How about companies with a larger share of the market having to give a proportional amount of money to competing companies. That could get complicated, but so was this multi-million doller trial, eh?

uhhh, yeah. Major League Baseball instituted this to try to allow the "small-market teams" to compete with the likes of the "big-market teams" (Yankees, Dodgers, etc.) that make more money.

Yes, it complicated, and no, it doesn't work. (Look at who's won the last few World Series.)