Future 2 maker Bungie has displayed its stand towards cheaters twice already, and now the corporate has gone for the hattrick. This time round, Bungie has introduced down cheatmaker Lavicheats within the US District court docket for a sum of $6.7 million, as reported by Stephen Totilo from Axios. It’s believed that the defendant is predicated in India.
NEWS: Bungie wins one other dishonest lawsuit: a $6.7 million award towards Lavicheats, which it sued in 2021
Defendant by no means responded to the go well with. Was a default judgment
Bungie stated the cheats had been downloaded greater than 1700 instances, says it spent $2m battling cheat-makers pic.twitter.com/m6nIkzjPZ4
— Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) May 8, 2023
Lavicheats now owe Bungie a sum of $6.7 million for the lawsuit that was filed in 2021. This was a default judgement because the defendant by no means responded to the go well with. Bungie has additionally said that the cheats from Lavicheats had been downloaded greater than 1,700 instances, and the corporate needed to spend over $2 million on combatting these cheats.
Furthermore, the $6.7 million sum has been divided into the next components: $5,580,000 is owed as a result of DMCA violations, $300,000 for the violations of the Copyright Act, $579,270 for Lanham Act violations and $241,703 for the legal professional charges. Moreover, Totilo has additionally said that the defendant is “believed to dwell in India, so I suppose he does not count on this to ever get to him.”
That is the third cheatmaker that Bungie has efficiently sued in current instances, the primary being AimJunkies, towards whom it received $4,396,222 in damages and authorized charges. The second was the Romanian cheat-seller Mihai Claudiu-Florentin, towards whom Bungie managed to win a sum of $12 million in damages. Cheaters ought to know that Bungie doesn’t fiddle.
