Destiny 2 cheat sellers forced to pay Bungie $4.3 million following lawsuit
Bungie is winning its battle against cheat makers
Published: 22nd February 2023 | Source: Torrent Freak |
Bungie has won its first battle against Destiny 2 cheat sellers in arbitration
Bungie, the developer behind the Destiny franchise has won its first legal battle against Destiny 2 cheat sellers, with Judge Ronald Cox concluding that cheaters had violated the DMCA's anti-circumvention provision and related trafficking restrictions. In total, Bungie has been awarded $4.3 million from the cheat seller AimJunkies, receiving $3.6 million in damaged and over $700 to account for legal fees and other costs.
AimJunkies defended their sale of Destiny 2 cheats by stating that cheating is not against the law, arguing that Bungie's copyright infringement allegations are unfounded, as many of Bungie's referenced copyrights were registered after Destiny 2 cheats became available. This led to Bungie's original lawsuit to be dismissed, with AimJunkies countersuing Bungie as a result. This lawsuit was also dismissed. After this, Bungie filed a new case after amending their complaints.
During arbitration, Judge Ronald Cox largely sided with Bungie, confirming that AimJunkies were in violation of the DMCA by using reverse engineering techniques to find holes in Bungie's security systems. The arbitrator concluded that these acts of circumvention were malicious, and that Bungie are entitles to $2,500 per offense. With 102 violations, AimJunkies are to pay Bungie $255,000 in damages.
Additionally, legal filings indicate that around 1,361 copies of AimJunkies' Destiny 2 cheats were sold. It was also concluded that AimJunkies tried to hide from the court the number of cheats that were sold, entitling Bungie to full statutory damages. These damages are $2,500 per violation, totalling $3,402,500. In total, Bungie are to be awarded $3,657,500 in damages.
Alongside damages, Bungie's legal fees and other costs are to be paid for, giving the company $4,396,222 in total between fees and damages. This is not the end of Bungies legal battles against Destiny 2 cheaters, as they still need to win their copyright battle against AimJunkies, and the company seeks to prevent AimJunkies from engaging in similar activities in the future, effectively asking for the company's closure.
Currently, AimJunkies remains active, though they have stopped selling Destiny 2 cheats. With Bungie winning their legal battle against them, it is likely that other companies will take similar action against the cheat seller, and that Bungie will find additional success when taking other cheat sellers to court.
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Originally Posted by Warchild
This is a good thing for sure. I got sick of the cheaters in crucible so much that I stopped playing the game.
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I used to enjoy PvP in D2 and got to be decent, Not great but decent, But there was a wave of cheaters that would down entire teams within literally 1 second from across the map behind walls and it happened a lot.Quote
The cheaters are coming back in waves just like before, but this time the cheats are more "Powerful" it's honestly ridiculous that no one has managed to find a way to stop this sort of thing, without going down the route of consoles, which would stop 99% of it.
Biggest problem I have is people abusing VPN's, I am constantly when playing PVP in D2 fighting against people who I should not be matching with, but thanks to those VPN's I am matching them all the time.
It's one thing that I loved about running COD Servers was the ability to put a max ping in, if your ping was over 60ms you were not joining the server.Quote
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Originally Posted by Damien c
To bad it's not stopped the cheating, neither has the inclusion of Battleye.
The cheaters are coming back in waves just like before, but this time the cheats are more "Powerful" it's honestly ridiculous that no one has managed to find a way to stop this sort of thing, without going down the route of consoles, which would stop 99% of it. Biggest problem I have is people abusing VPN's, I am constantly when playing PVP in D2 fighting against people who I should not be matching with, but thanks to those VPN's I am matching them all the time. It's one thing that I loved about running COD Servers was the ability to put a max ping in, if your ping was over 60ms you were not joining the server. |
Worst part is that you can make a lag switch from just a few dollars/pounds along with tutorials on how to make them on YT. Just destroys a good gaming atmosphere...
The problem is that so many people think that "consoles have almost zero cheaters", yet its actually full of them, you just dont consider it because of the way they actually dupe the servers.Quote
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