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Ep 202 — From Atari to NVIDIA: We Don’t Care, We Don’t Have To!
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Ep 202 — From Atari to NVIDIA: We Don’t Care, We Don’t Have To!

Atari and Magnavox squaring off circa '80s; AT&T antitrust circa '80s; GPU monopoly circa NVIDIA

Andrew flies solo on today’s show, which… coincidentally features a bunch of law from the 1980s. Learn how a 1981 advertisement for a soon-to-be defunct video game system shaped the law of copyright into what it is today after Atari sued Magnavox to pull a Pac-Man clone off the shelves.

In the second story, we talk about the death of antitrust law. What …

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