Destiny 2 Cheat Makers Agree To Pay $13.5 Million In Damages To End Bungie Lawsuit

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After almost a yr of back-and-forth out and in of court docket, cheat software program builders Elite Boss Tech have agreed to pay $13.5 million in damages to Bungie. The cheat maker had beforehand provided Destiny 2 dishonest software program on its web site, resulting in a lawsuit from the Destiny developer final yr.

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As reported by TorrentFreak, Bungie has now settled at the very least one in all its many authorized battles in opposition to websites that make and distribute cheat software program for its standard MMO shooter, Destiny 2. On June 9, Elite Boss Tech proprietor Robert James Duthie Nelson, together with quite a few different defendants, agreed that their dishonest software program provides an unauthorized “graphical overlay” in-game that injects third-party code into Bungie’s copyrighted code which constitutes an “unauthorized derivative work.”

Further, Elite Boss Tech agreed that its cheat software program circumvented particular technological measures Bungie created in Destiny 2 to regulate who may entry what within the sport, which is a direct violation of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions.

The cheat makers additionally admitted that each one of this was accomplished willfully.

As seen in court docket docs, Elite Boss Tech’s dishonest software program was apparently downloaded 6,765 occasions, with every obtain counting as a separate and infringing circumvention system, which additionally violates the DMCA’s provisions in opposition to anti-circumvention. Multiplying the variety of alleged downloads by “statutory damages of $2,000 per violation of 17 U.S.C. § 1201” the protection’s authorized group arrived at its agreed fee of $13,530,000.

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This all began again in August 2021, when Destiny 2 developer Bungie, as a part of its ongoing authorized struggle in opposition to cheat makers and sellers, filed a lawsuit in opposition to Elite Boss Tech over a number of copyright infringement violations.

As identified by TorrentFreak, for some time it appeared like this case was heading to a full trial, as each events appeared unable to seek out any path in direction of ending the lawsuit. But now it appears one thing has modified and Elite Boss Tech has determined to cease combating Bungie and pay for its violations. Also, as a part of this settlement, the cheat makers comply with by no means create or distribute any type of software program that infringes upon Bungie’s copyrighted works.