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Newly Unsealed Docs in Illegal Wage-Theft Cartel

posted by mrcoolbp on Thursday March 27 2014, @04:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the but-everyone's-doing-it dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

In a follow up to our story a few days ago, Newly unsealed documents from Google and Apple further prove their complicity in a secret illegal agreement to limit employees' careers and wages. Some background on this cartel is available in another article covering the US Department of Justice investigation into this matter earlier this week. When these companies were caught red-handed, blatantly breaking the law, the US government intervened on workers' behalf by asking the companies to, in effect, "please stop doing this," but the proposed settlement will only "be in effect" for the next five years.

Go justice!

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Adrian Harvey on Thursday March 27 2014, @06:25PM

    by Adrian Harvey (222) on Thursday March 27 2014, @06:25PM (#22271)

    The point being that not everything that is illegal is theft.

    Copyright infringement is not theft, it's Copyright infringement. Still illegal, but does not deprive the owner of possession, so cannot meet the usual legal definition of theft (your jurisdiction may vary, etc) in spite of it being equated to such in those annoying unskipable ads as the start of DVDs that just scream 'pirate me so you don't have to watch this bit'

    By the same token, Price Fixing is not theft, it's Price Fixing. If we generally oppose the broadening of the term in one area and not in the other we do not help the argument.