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Read the juiciest bits from the Apple-Epic court ruling | TechCrunch
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is pissed off at Apple. Really, really pissed off. In Rogers’ newly released 80-page decision, she took Apple and its executives to task for defying the court’s orders in its original case with Fortnite maker Epic Games. Though Apple largely won that round, as it was determined the tech giant was…
The Supreme Court Doesn’t Seem Eager to Axe This $9 Billion Broadband Subsidy
Digital divide advocates can breathe a tentative sigh of relief, as the Supreme Court appeared reluctant to dismantle the Universal Service Fund (USF), a program that spends close to $9 billion a year to help low-income and rural Americans access phone and internet service, as well as schools, libraries and hospitals. The conservative non-profit Consumers’…
The Google/Epic Games app store showdown goes before Court of Appeals | The DeanBeat
We had a rare peek this week into the legal world of antitrust and its enforcement in the games industry. Google is appealing its loss in an antitrust trial as Epic Games convinced a federal court that Google had illegally acted as a monopolist in restricting Epic’s access to Android users. Now Google has taken…
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The Supreme Court could decide the fate of Pornhub — and the rest of the internet
In Supreme Court oral arguments over a potentially seismic change to the internet, the most memorable question came from Justice Samuel Alito. “One of the parties here is the owner of Pornhub, right?” Alito asked Derek Shaffer, lawyer for the adult industry group Free Speech Coalition. “Is it like the old Playboy magazine? You have essays…