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Activision sues company distributing Call of Duty cheats - briefly
(hx) 07:08 PM CET - Jan,05 2022 - Post a comment / read (10)
The Verge reports that Activision Publishing is suing Engineowning UG in California District Court, alleging the German company illegally sells cheat software for the Call of Duty series. “By this lawsuit, Activision seeks to put a stop to unlawful conduct by an organization that is distributing and selling for profit numerous malicious software products designed to enable members of the public to gain unfair competitive advantages (i.e., to cheat) in the COD Games,” Activision said. “These ongoing activities damage Activision’s games, its overall business, and the experience of the COD player community.” According to the lawsuit, “the Cheating Software enables players to manipulate the COD Games to their personal advantage, such as by automatically aiming weapons, revealing the locations of opponents, and allowing the player to see information that is not normally available to players because it would give them an unfair advantage within the game.” The company says it believes the defendants “have been fully aware that their conduct violates Activision’s rights but nevertheless have brazenly continued their activities.” The company is naming 50 “Does” in the lawsuit, and while it notes the believed identities of some individuals involved with EngineOwning, it acknowledges that “the true names and capacities, whether individual, corporate, associate, or otherwise, of the Doe defendants are unknown to Activision.”
last 10 comments:
Csimbi(12:06 AM CET - Jan,06 2022 )
lol
They are too dumb to build good code, so they try to sue.
Even is they win this case, if there is money in it, then it's like dealing with pirates: you kill one and three other ones open up in its place -> no impact whatsoever.
You should write proper code that can't be hacked by wannabes and weekend warriors. Pros, you will never deal with.

Please update us on how it goes.
I am very curious about how the built-in cheats argument - amongst other things - works out. Like what rights exactly do they violate.

The name Activision used to mean something good. Seems they are determined to join EA in killing gaming.

gx-x(12:10 AM CET - Jan,06 2022 )
Go to Germany then sue them. Laws are not the same. No one cares about your "EULA".
But you are going to try and drag the people from Europe to USA to court because USA is the Empire of The World, we should all kneel before US and their courts.

lol
worst of luck

Csimbi(12:12 AM CET - Jan,06 2022 )
Yes, the EULA is completely meaningless in the EU.

I wonder if they know there is no precedence law in the EU... in a few countries yes, but not everywhere.
They'll have to sue each and every one of these separately, lol

gx-x(12:19 AM CET - Jan,06 2022 )
But they, as every US company, expect to sit at home and have people delivered to them from abroad. The thing is - with no US government actively pushing pressure with threats - it's not going to happen.

sikapossu(04:49 AM CET - Jan,06 2022 )
Online cheaters are the worst scum in online games so i hope Activision win this

Csimbi(09:27 AM CET - Jan,06 2022 )
sikapossu> Online cheaters are the worst scum in online games so i hope Activision win this
I agree with the first part.
Regarding hoping for win - it's irrelevant. It's not going to change anything. If anything, it's going to make things worse.
Activision should write code that does not leave room for these exploits - but, hey. That would mean actual investment, which is a no-no like with EA. They just want to get cash for the low quality shit they puke up.

BTW, doesn't this game have Denuvo? The oh-so-great DRM and anti-cheat shite?
Why don't they sue Denuvo for not being able to protect the game?
There's more money in that.

gx-x(09:45 AM CET - Jan,06 2022 )
Csimbi>
BTW, doesn't this game have Denuvo? The oh-so-great DRM and anti-cheat shite?
Why don't they sue Denuvo for not being able to protect the game?
There's more money in that.

An excellent point!

Sabot(03:28 PM CET - Jan,06 2022 )
I suppose when TPM becomes the norm to play games, that’ll be the end of cheats - unless they are rich shits that can afford hardware weekly :P

Regards online MP. Gave up with that years ago when generation unsupervised came online and you were dealing with anything in nappies to fuckwits that didn’t know what a computer was and used the CD-ROM drive as a cup holder…

Csimbi(07:21 PM CET - Jan,06 2022 )
You don't need TPM.
They've been using HWID in the past to ban people - so be vary of used motherboards.
Mind you, that did not stop shit, either.
So, again, I am confident this achieves nothing.
Only proper coding would.

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