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		uryga on July 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M > calling efforts to fight cheating "evil" is silly their method (blocking Wine) is questionable though. it reminds me of websites that block Central/Eastern European IP's "because of bots" (yeah, it happens). the goal is nice, but the method hurts many honest users.

afiori on July 15, 2019 [–]

As far as I understand, the problem with wine is that the wine sandbox prevents other anticheat mechanism from working.

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