Cheat maker’s lawsuit against Bungie has been dismissed

Recently, Bungie has been handing out lawsuits against cheat sellers and cheat creators, looking to stamp out cheating in Destiny 2. For the most part, Bungie is winning these cases, but it ran into a wall earlier this year when AimJunkies counter-sued the company. 

Bungie has previously filed a lawsuit against AimJunkies for providing cheats for Destiny 2. However, a judge dismissed the case and then, AimJunkies counter-sued. In its lawsuit, AimJunkies claimed that Bungie had illegally accessed their internal systems and surveilled private records. The lawsuit also claimed that Bungie violated the DMCA by breaking the DRM protection on its software.

Now just a couple of months later, there has been an update on this case. As reported by TorrentFreak, a judge has dismissed the claims made in the counter-suit, stating that AimJunkies did not provide enough evidence to support its claims of a DMCA violation, or unauthorised computer access. There was also lack of evidence that there was any DRM protection on cheat software for Bungie to circumvent.

Phoenix Digital, AimJunkies’ parent company, now has until the 21st of November to amend the complaint or to drop the case. If they do re-file the complaint, then Bungie will have to respond in December.

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KitGuru Says: It always seemed unlikely that Bungie had managed to hack into a cheat maker’s PC for surveillance, and it seems there was little evidence of that happening. Chances are, this will be the last we hear of this, as lawsuits are expensive to drag on. 

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