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A Hitachi and LG optical disk-making joint venture has pleaded guilty to 14 counts of violating antitrust law and one count of wire fraud in the US. The company is the first to be charged in the probe of price-fixing in the sale of CD, DVD and Blu-ray drives. The Department of Justice investigation also issued a subpoena to …

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  1. nichomach
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    OK...

    ...now we need to know if they were doing the same here.

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  2. Ralph B
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    Has anyone checked?

    Has anyone checked that the Thailand floods weren't photoshopped?

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Where's the anti-Apple angle?

    Come on, there must be one somewhere.....

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    1. Ammaross Danan
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      Nah

      There's no anti-Apple angle. They just chose not to put any new tech in their kit, but sell it like it had some....

      For the iFans, here's a quote "We all know Steve Jobs does not want Blu-ray to be on Macs. He famously referred to the licensing rules for Sony's format as a "bag of hurt.""

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    Really old news?

    Ummm, didn't they plead guilty to this in September? Seems like really old news.

    http://www.cio.com/article/690819/Hitachi_LG_Data_Storage_to_Plead_Guilty_on_Price_Fixing

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