It’s CoD: Warzone related.
January 4th saw the filing of a lawsuit by Activision against the cheat site known as EngineOwning. They filed in the Central District of California. Naturally, the site in question sells cheats for Call of Duty: Warzone, among other online shooters. They describe the site in their suit as “a German business entity and numerous individuals” and goes on to accuse them of “trafficking in circumvention devices”, “intentional interference with contractual relations”, and “unfair competition”.
EngineOwning does, in fact have a number of cheats available for Call of Duty: Warzone. All those cheaty oldies but goldies; aimbots, wallhacks radar, triggerbots, rapid fire (my favorite). And naturally, anti-cheat circumvention to keep you from getting banned.
Warzone isn’t the only game, or even the only CoD game they offer hacks for, either. Among them, a number of entries in the Battlefield series, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Titanfall 2, Halo Infinite; they’re even working towars cheats for Overwatch, too, just to really piss in Activision’s corn flakes.
Activision seeks to put a stop to all of this with their lawsuit.
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. These ongoing activities damage Activision’s games, its overall business, and the experience of the COD player community.
Furthermore, they’re not just going to be satisfied with and apology and the whole thing coming down. They’re out for blood. In addition to legal costs, they requested:
As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ conduct, pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1203(c), Activision is entitled to Defendants’ profits attributable to their violations of 17 U.S.C § 1201.
Alternatively, Activision is entitled to the maximum statutory damages, pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 1203(c)(A), in the amount of $2,500 with respect to each violation by Defendants.
To put it in a way that’s at least a bit more palatable to all: let them fight.
Source: PC Gamer
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