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Sean Hollister
Epic isn’t even trying to suggest it didn’t breach its Google contract.

We’ve now got Epic Games senior director of engineering Andrew Grant on the stand, and Google attorney Kyle Mach asked straight-up: “You know that Project Liberty violated Epic’s contract with Google?”

With no hesitation whatsoever, Grant replied: “Yes.”

Of course, Google has him dead to rights in internal communications. In 2020, Grant wrote: “The needle we are trying to thread is to not fall foul of any agreements we have with Google, other than as needed for Project Liberty.”

(Google has counterclaims against Epic for breaching its contract.)

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