Google asks 9th Circuit for emergency stay, says Epic ruling ‘is dangerous’

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The institution says the imminent deadline to instrumentality changes gives it small clip to effort to mitigate ‘serious risks.’

Oct 17, 2024, 1:32 AM UTC

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Google has asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to halt the imminent changes required from Judge James Donato’s recent ruling successful Epic v. Google. The institution already asked Judge Donato to bash the same, but it’s not waiting till Friday to find retired if the justice who vowed to “tear the barriers down” volition fto Google property intermission connected his ruling.

The ruling, which Google has appealed, would unit Google to administer third-party app stores wrong Google Play, nary longer necessitate Google Play Billing for apps distributed via Google Play, and more, with galore of those changes ordered to statesman connected November 1st — conscionable implicit 2 weeks from today.

But echoing galore of Google’s arguments during the territory tribunal case, which Judge Donato rejected arsenic insufficient, the institution present argues that the bid “threatens Google Play’s quality to supply a harmless and trusted idiosyncratic experience.”

“This wouldn’t conscionable wounded Google – this would person antagonistic consequences for Android users, developers and instrumentality manufacturers who person built thriving businesses connected Android, writes Google’s Lee-Anne Mulholland, VP of regulatory affairs, successful a information expanse distributed to journalists.

The information expanse is bulleted into 5 antithetic sections, and the conception headers springiness you an thought of Google’s objections:

“Forcing Google to administer third-party app stores within Google Play harms information and privacy”
“Handing hundreds of third-party Android app stores entree to Google Play’s app catalog reduces developers’ control implicit app organisation and puts users astatine risk”
“Linking retired from wrong an app connected Google Play to outer app downloads is dangerous”
“Removing Play billing arsenic an enactment reduces important protections and features users trust on”
“Rushing the implementation of remedies volition rise risks to users, developers, and instrumentality makers”

To get a consciousness of Google’s existent filing with the court, here’s however it begins:

At the petition of a azygous competitor, Epic Games, the District Court ordered extended redesigns to Play that volition exposure 100-million-plus U.S. users of Android devices to important caller information risks and unit cardinal changes to Google’s contractual and concern relationships with hundreds of thousands of Google partners. The tribunal gave Google conscionable 3 weeks to marque galore of these sweeping changes—a Herculean task creating an unacceptable hazard of information and information failures wrong the Android ecosystem.

You tin work the full information sheet, and Google’s full exigency motion, below.

Page 1 of Google 9th Circuit Fact Sheet