And now French union sues Booking.com, etc for price fixing

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10155558/French-hotels-take-on-online-booking-firms.html

and the monopoly driven bullying doesn't stop at hotels, see:

http://blogs.perl.org/users/bookingemployee/2012/03/truth-about-bookingcom.html