Game Cheat Maker EngineOwning Sentenced to Compensate Activision

TapTechNews May 29th news, according to IGN reports, the game cheat maker EngineOwning was sentenced by the District Court of the Central District of California, US, to compensate Activision Blizzard more than 14 million US dollars in losses for infringing on the copyright of Activision Blizzard, and also had to transfer the domain name www.EngineOwning.to to Activision.

Activision accused EngineOwning of providing cheating software for games such as the Call of Duty series, Counter-Strike, Battlefield, and Titanfall, which violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The basis for the court to determine the amount of compensation for EngineOwning is the minimum statutory compensation standard under the DMCA (200 US dollars per infringement), multiplied by the estimated number of downloads in the US (72,328 times), totaling approximately 14.46 million US dollars (TapTechNews note: currently about 105 million Chinese yuan).

This is not the first time Activision has fought against EngineOwning. As early as February 2023, Activision sued EngineOwning for a well-known streamer using cheats in Call of Duty: Warzone and won a compensation of 3 million US dollars. However, EngineOwning did not stop there and continued to provide cheat software for the new works Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Call of Duty: Warzone in 2023. Activision persevered in its struggle and finally obtained this favorable judgment.

It is still not clear whether Activision can actually collect this compensation amount and whether it can successfully take over EngineOwning's website domain name. As of the TapTechNews release, EngineOwning is still selling cheats and software to bypass the hardware identification code (HWID), seemingly operating in areas outside the US.