r/pcmasterrace • u/Caledor152 PC Master Race • Jun 30 '26

News/Article Bombshell lawsuit alleges that RAM manufacturers are colluding to drive up prices. Three companies that account for 90% of RAM revenue are being sued for anti-competitive practices. Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron (the "DRAM Triarchy" controlling ~90-95% of the global DRAM market)

https://www.polygon.com/ram-manufacturers-sued-supply-price-fixing/
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u/TomTomXD1234 Jun 30 '26

Not the first time.

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u/myfakesecretaccount 5800X3D | 7900 XTX | 3600MHz 32GB Jun 30 '26

But any time you bring this up some skid mark comes in “no no bro you don’t get it, it’s the market, supply and demand you can’t force them to sell things to you at a discounted price” to defend this shit.

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u/200IQUser Jun 30 '26

you can’t force them to sell things to you at a discounted price

You can force companies to do many things. Miners killed their bosses eith pickaces to lower the workday to 8 hours. If enough people demand it a government can literally dismantle a company

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u/RogueJello Specs/Imgur here Jun 30 '26

If companies are people, is it wrong to wish for a corporate death sentence in cases of wrong doing?

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u/200IQUser Jun 30 '26

No, and its rare but it sometimes happens. Given enough fines a corporate will dissolve anyway but its not the corporate who needs to be jailed, its the leaders. The second courts start to pierce the veil in cases of clear abuse of law this bullshit stops

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u/Kibelok 7800X3D| 3090 | 64GB Jun 30 '26

Current global governments are already a conglomarate of companies, if you see any modern government "dismantling" a company, you can bet it's on purpose to remove a competition, not because the company did something wrong.

Don't be naive, the people can't demand anything in modern politics, especially with geopolitical important items like RAM.

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u/200IQUser Jun 30 '26

Csnt demand in practice because the politicians are bought and peaceful protests are ignored. Non peaceful ones are illegal. So they solved the problem, the only way to make real change would mean risking prison for many

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u/Wobbelblob Jun 30 '26

Non peaceful ones are illegal

Tbf, they always where illegal. The difference is that peaceful ones also where, so it just was more of a "Being late is punishable by death and rebelling is also punishable by death?"-situation.

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u/200IQUser Jun 30 '26

until a few decades ago the government lacked high quality cctv so they couldnt mass prosecute everyone who burned a trash bin

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u/TheMireAngel Jun 30 '26

Or said govt will be overthrown and leader executed/jailed for killing protestors

Except the protestors are armed rebels, armed with us military weapons and training

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u/Hmm_would_bang Jun 30 '26

You understand when someone says “you can’t just go around murdering people” they don’t mean that it’s literally impossible to murder people, right?

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u/TheMireAngel Jun 30 '26

Oh but history shows different infact i know i know its hard to believe. The usa was formed via a violent revolutionary war. Slavery was abolished from a… violent murdering civil war.

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u/innociv Jun 30 '26

I think they know what they said tbf. They're saying people have become way too complacent and that's the main reason wealth inequality and so much abuse of power has run rampant. It literally gets worse every single year for ~55 years straight. Those in power keep becoming more and more emboldened.

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u/200IQUser Jun 30 '26

Yes, but what you said is rather different. To legalise murder you would have to change the constitution, because it affects basic human rights. It would be quite impossible in a country with rule of law. Adding a few rules to businesses is a much, much lower bar. The US just said to 2 leading AI companies thst they cant release their product