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Freeman [soylentnews.org] writes:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/09/judge-issues-legal-permaban-500k-judgment-against-serial-destiny-2-cheater/ [arstechnica.com]

Just over a year ago, Bungie went to court [arstechnica.com] to try to stop a serial Destiny 2 cheater who had evaded multiple account bans and started publicly threatening Bungie employees. Now, that player has been ordered to pay $500,000 in copyright-based damages and cannot buy, play, or stream Bungie games in the future.

In a consent judgment [courtlistener.com] that has apparently been agreed to by both sides of the lawsuit [courtlistener.com] (as dug up by TorrentFreak [torrentfreak.com]), district court judge Richard Jones agrees with Bungie's claim that defendant Luca Leone's use of cheat software constitutes "copyright infringement" of Destiny 2.
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Leone also created new accounts to get around multiple ban attempts by Bungie and tried to "opt out" of the game's license agreement [arstechnica.com] as a minor in an attempt to do a legal end run around Bungie's multiple account bans.
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While a judge dismissed one such case [arstechnica.com] against cheat maker AimJunkies last year, Bungie has since been awarded $12 million [torrentfreak.com], $13.5 million [torrentfreak.com], $6.7 million [torrentfreak.com], and $16.2 million [torrentfreak.com] in damages in four separate copyright-based judgments against cheat makers.

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