Faustus von Goethe wrote:
> If you then turn around and (ignoring the law) use strongarm tactics and
> empty threats to discourage competition in that realm, you are in fact
> guilty of anticompetetive tactics. Make yourself a monopoly (or near
> monopoly, as TSR was) and you are violating both federal and state statutes.
One of the major problems with determining who is a monopolist under antitrust
laws is defining the relevant market. Both sides of an antitrust argument will
usually be arguing that the market for the products in question should be
decided differently. IMHO, it is unlikely that a judge would find that TSR
constituted a monopoly, under traditional antitrust interpretations, in any
relevant market (whether RPGs or games in general - the market in one's own
product alone [D&D] clearly would not be a relevant market for the determination
of monopolist status as copyright law permissibly grants a monopoly in that
product).
Sean
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