fatslob-:O on 14 April 2019
The matter of exclusivity is complicated where two scenarios could emerge ...
For one, if a trailing platform provider is struggling to maintain it's viability in the current market then acquisitions of intellectual property could certainly help make them more competitive against their competitors and this certainly wouldn't be deemed as anti-consumer for the most part ...
The other scenario is where we have an existing dominant platform provider attempting to consolidate and vertically integrate the entire industry in it's business by buying up as many intellectual properties they can get a hold of which would indeed be anti-consumer since controlling large parts of the value chain would eventually become toxic to the consumer ...
