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mornelithe on 11 July 2014
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Landguy said:
mornelithe said:

Excuse me, but that's a load of bullshit.  Yeah, I'm sure Sony hiring some employees from Pixar, Dreamworks and ILM was really going to destroy 3 multi-billion dollar corporations, how fragile Pixar, ILM and Dreamworks really must be, right?

And the prosecution doesn't have to prove anything other than beyond reasonable doubt.  So even if the agreement isn't written down in black and white, these emails and statements from current/former employees, and especially from Sony could more than prove the case.  The statements made in the depositions and the emails, thus far, definitely suggest wage fixing was taking place.

I wasn't talking about destroying the whole parent companies.  I was talking about these particular animation companies.  If you look up these companies, you will see that the parties involved weren't reall Sony the parent company, but these small companies started for the sole purpose of animation.  THese small companies have to earn their profits.  The Sony division that they talk about is actually gone now because it couldn't actuall make it...

This isn't about Sony...this is about fair market competition for skilled labor.  The value of a job, is supposed to be determined by the market, not by a bunch of industry execs colluding with each other.  As I said, that's illegal.

Pixar, isn't a small company, it was started in 1986, and by the time of this particular issue (2002), was far from being small.  Likewise with Dreamworks, who had just come off of making roughly 267 million dollars off of Shrek alone, in 2001.  These are not 'small' animation groups.