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Re:Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypas... by izacus on Friday August 10, 2018 @03:19PM (#17736049)
Who's saying that's a good thing for a healthy free market?
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Re:Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypas... by scarface74 on Friday August 10, 2018 @03:24PM (#17736082)
It’s not but it’s been that way since the first Atari game system came out.
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Re:Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypas... by javagram on Friday August 10, 2018 @03:34PM (#17736155)
Atari and other early consoles had unlicensed, unapproved software distributed for them legally.

This did become impossible eventually as security technology improved.

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Re:Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypas... by scarface74 on Friday August 10, 2018 @03:49PM (#17736249)
It actually started in 1983 with the NES from what I can tell. NES's lockout chip was reverse engineered and Nintendo sued.
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