Activision wins $15M in court case against cheat provider ‘EngineOwning’

Earlier this week, a jury ruled against the operators of cheat-selling site, AimJunkies, awarding Bungie tens of thousands in damages and setting a precedent for future legal cases against those making and supplying cheats for online games. Now, Activision Blizzard has had its own court success, taking down EngineOwning. 

EngineOwning, a well-known cheat provider for online games like Call of Duty, has been ordered to cease operations, transfer ownership of its domain over to Activision Blizzard and pay out a staggering $15 million in damages for consistently circumventing COD anti-cheat systems. Roughly $300,000 of that is for legal fees.

According to documentation submitted to the courts in this case, EngineOwning's cheat tools were downloaded over 72,000 times. A number of EngineOwning customers were also named as part of the lawsuit, including a number of content creators, who were outed as cheaters, although individual cheaters are not impacted by the case or final ruling here, it only applies to the EngineOwning company.

This cheat tool was popular with other major online games too, not just Call of Duty. The software could also allow you to cheat in games like Counter-Strike and Battlefield, complete with a hardware ID spoofer to avoid bans.

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KitGuru Says: Obviously there are still going to be plenty of cheat providers and cheat makers out there. Selling cheats for online games is a huge market after all, earning millions of dollars on a yearly basis. Still, we can hope that some will be deterred by recent court cases. 

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