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How DMA became Epic Games' trump card in Australia's Apple, Google antitrust case

By Saloni Sinha and James Panichi ( September 15, 2025, 07:44 GMT | Comment) -- After a month of haggling over redactions, a court has published the detailed and lengthy written judgments that explain why an Australian judge ruled against both Apple and Google in the landmark antitrust case brought by Epic Games. A reading of the judgment suggests the European Union’s Digital Markets Act played a large role in Federal Court of Australia Judge Jonathan Beach’s conclusion that the tech companies had abused their market power and violated competition laws.It’s been a little over a month since Australian Judge Jonathan Beach delivered his landmark ruling in the antitrust case brought by developer Epic Games against Apple and Google. While the announcement of the decision in August gave us the headline, the written verdicts published last week have revealed, with the granularity to be expected from over 2,000 pages, why Beach sided with Epic on most significant competition matters....

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