Bungie wins $4.3 million in lawsuit against Destiny cheat sellers

For a couple of years now, Bungie's legal team has been hard at work identifying cheat creators and serving them with lawsuits. One of the biggest cases was brought against AimJunkies, which tried and failed to counter-sue Bungie last year. Now, a judge has ultimately sided with Bungie on the case, ordering AimJunkies to pay over $4 million in damages. 

This lawsuit didn't go as smoothly as Bungie would have liked, as initially, a judge did dismiss the lawsuit, which opened the door for AimJunkies to counter-sue. The countersuit was also dismissed and Bungie refiled its own case. As reported by TorrentFreak, during arbitration, a judge sided with Bungie on the issue, ordering AimJunkies to pay $4.3 million USD in damages for supplying cheats for Destiny 2.

As reported by TorrentFreak, AimJunkies was found to have been in violation of the DMCA after using reverse engineering techniques to find holes in Bungie's security systems. In all, the total amount of damages works out to roughly $2,500 per each act of circumvention.

The legal filings indicate that around 1,361 copies of AimJunkies' Destiny 2 cheat tools were sold. While you would think that losing a case like this would force a cheat seller to shut down, AimJunkies unfortunately still remains active, although its Destiny cheats have been taken down.

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KitGuru Says: Bungie is building up a track record for winning these cases, which in turn should help discourage others from selling Destiny 2 cheat tools, which should also help shrink the market for cheats too. 

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