Bungie Wins Lawsuit Against Cheating Websites, Awarded $63,210

TapTechNews May 26th news, according to Stephen Totilo of GameFile, Bungie won the lawsuit against the cheating website Aimjunkies and PhoenixDigital and was awarded $63,210 (TapTechNews note: currently about 458,000 RMB).

David Schaefer, the founder of PhoenixDigital, said he will fight this and demand that the judgment be dismissed, and if it fails, he will file an appeal.

James Barker, Bungie's lawyer, said:

We express our gratitude to the judge, his staff, and the jury for their diligence, professionalism, and carefulness. We are committed to protecting our players and will continue to protect them from cheating, including bringing this case and future cases to trial.

Between 2019 and 2021, Aimjunkies sold at least 1400 copies of the Destiny 2 cheating software.

Bungie believes that the defendant James May reverse-engineered the game; Aimjunkies' ESP wallhack cheat extracts and replicates normally inaccessible player location data and then uses the game's camera and graphics output to display hint boxes around players who were originally invisible, which violates its copyright.