One of the biggest problems plaguing online players is the infamous cheater phenomenon.
Quite a few internet sites and private groups sell subscription services (for a fee) and offer a variety of cheats for popular games.
And this happens to all the big companies, which of course are not silent, and try to eradicate the phenomenon as much as possible.
Now a lawsuit against a group of cheaters called AimJunkies, on behalf of Bungie (acquired by Sony last year) is coming to an end, and Bungie is coming out with the upper hand.
the fine?
The cheaters will pay
an amount of 4.3 million dollars
for damages and compensations caused to the developer and its games.
The copyright infringement lawsuit was originally filed in April 2021. A year later, a judge in federal court in Seattle dismissed it, arguing that Bungie did not provide enough reasons for how the cheats infringed copyright.
Since then, Bungie has refined its statement of claim, stating that AimJunkies "back-engineered"
Bungie is currently fighting it against another cheater group called LaviCheats.
In the statement of claim against them, she demanded about 2000 dollars for each of the illegal downloads of the cheats.
LaviCheats provided cheats to more than 2,790 users, and the claim amounts to $6.7 million (including tax and commission payments).
This isn't the first time Bungie has won a lawsuit against a cheater group.
Last year the Elite Boss Tech group paid about $13.5 million to a developer.
In the meantime, the phenomenon only continues, and for every group of cheaters that falls, two new ones rise up in their place, and continue to make life miserable for the big companies.
And of course to the players themselves.
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