premise: If Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK) CEO Patrick Byrne's personal crusade against the illegal practice has any merit, <hypo>.
hypothesis: <hypo> should be "then his company, Novastar, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), True Religion (NASDAQ:TRLG), and NetEase (NASDAQ:NTES) -- among many others -- may have had their stock prices artificially depressed, some of them for years"