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Fortunately for EU regulators, US judicial precedent is not binding there while their Digital Markets Act is. We'll see if they take this lying down.

Given treaties between the EU and US, I doubt the EU will be able to strip companies of their intellectual property rights.

We'll see.

That's not how intellectual property works.

Getting paid when others use your intellectual property is exactly how intellectual property works.

"Intellectual property" is a right granted by states in order to further specific goals of the state.

"Treaties" are binding agreements between nations that place limits on what they may or may not do.

Fun fact: The EU itself is based on treaties between it's member states.