Source: Activision / Sledgehammer Games / Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
Let this lawsuit be a stark reminder that cheating never pays off.
Activision has scored a huge victory in its ongoing battle to keep churning out its ridiculously popular first-person shooter Call of Duty.
It has been detected The lipU.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald ordered several defendants, including EngineOwning, a cheat site first sued by Activision in 2022, to pay the video game company $14,465,600 for distributing and creating Call of Duty crooks.
To add even more salt to EngineOwning's open wound, the judge said the site must surrender to Activision to stop cheating and pay an additional $292,912 in legal fees to Activision.
Ouch.
It's funny, even after the judge's ruling, the site is still up and selling Call of Duty cheats like “Aimbot”, which automatically aims and fires at opponents, or the ability to see players through walls for several matches.
Activision has already received $3 million in a pair of settlements
This latest financial win for Activision adds to the $3 million it took in a pair of settlements from Ignacio Gayduchenko and Manuel Santiago. Both people, per of IGN referencework with EngineOwning.
Several people were named in the original lawsuit but did not respond, leading Activision to ask the court to take action in April and then to yesterday's ruling.
Per The lip:
The judge found EngineOwning and several co-defendants guilty of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He also found them guilty of “intentionally” encouraging players to buy and use cheats, despite knowing that Call of Duty's terms of service forbid it.
If that doesn't scare other sites away from building and selling Call of Duty cheaters, we don't know what he will do.
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