Oh the legal ramifications.
Epic has been taking a stand against cheaters in their game, Fortnite. They’ve already banned a few thousand cheaters from the game. But two particular players at the crux of the cheating issue are going to come away with more than a ban.
Charles Vraspir and Brandon Broom are part of a site that aids in cheating; AddictedCheats.net. They are a “Support/help person” and a “moderator and member of the support staff”, respectively. Furthermore Vraspir, in particular, circumvented his ban via alt accounts, continuing to cheat as well as convincing other players to cheat. As far as the suit goes:
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (‘DMCA’) was enacted in 1998 to bring the Copyright Act into the digital age. Among other things, the DMCA prohibits the circumvention of any technological measure that effectively controls access to a protected work and grants copyright owners the right to enforce that prohibition.
This is a copyright infringement and breach of contract case in which the Defendant is infringing Epic’s copyrights by injecting unauthorized computer code into the copyright protected code of Epic’s popular Fortnite video game. In so doing, Defendant is creating unauthorized derivative works of Fortnite by modifying the game code and, thus, materially altering the game that the code creates and the experience of those who play it.
– from the suit against Vraspir
It’s more than safe to assume the wording isn’t much different in Broom’s suit. Doubly so, since AddictedCheats charges users for their service. In short, the two should probably be prepared to pay out the ass for this. And all over winning in Fortnite.
Source: PC Gamer, TorrentFreak
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