Diamond Member Steam 0 Posted May 28, 2024 Diamond Member Share Posted May 28, 2024 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up (credit: Bungie) [/url] They wanted to make money by selling cheating tools to Destiny 2 players. They may have ended up setting US legal precedent. After a trial in federal court in Seattle last week, a jury found cheat-seller AimJunkies, along with its parent company Phoenix Digital and four of its employees and contractors, liable for copyright infringement and assigned damages to each of them. The jury split $63,210 in damages, with $20,000 to Phoenix Digital itself and just under $11,000 each to the four individuals. That's just under the $65,000 revenue the defendants claimed to have generated from 1,400 copies of its Destiny 2 cheats. Bungie's case appears to have gone This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up has made it in the US court system. Because cheating at an online game is not, in itself, ********, game firms typically lean on the anti-circumvention aspects of the 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). That's how the makers of This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , and This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up have pursued their cheat-making antagonists. Bungie, in taking their claim past settlement and then winning a copyright claim from a jury, has perhaps provided game makers a case to point to in future proceedings, and perhaps more incentive. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up | This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/39191-steampressbungie-wins-landmark-suit-against-destiny-2-cheat-maker-aimjunkies/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts