GamingRedaction errors reveal the economics of exclusivity | Opinion

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We always knew that the court hearings around the FTC’s challenge to Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard would reveal some interesting details, but we got rather more details than anyone had bargained for this week – courtesy of someone with a Sharpie marker who is presumably having a very, very bad few days at work.

Documents from both Sony and Microsoft which were meant to have key details censored before being entered into the court records were clumsily redacted with a marker, leaving the figures quite legible on the court’s scanned versions of the documents. It’s not clear who was actually at fault here – there was some guffawing in Sony’s direction when its badly redacted documents emerged, but then Microsoft was hit by the same problem, raising the possibility that both companies’ details had leaked due to errors by a third party.

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