Bungie has been awarded $6.7 million in damages and authorized charges after profitable one more anti-cheating lawsuit, this time in opposition to the defendant LaviCheats.
The Future 2 developer was awarded a complete of $6,700,973, and 34 cents in a default ruling handed down by U.S. district choose Tana Lin, in accordance with a authorized doc tweeted by Axios’ Stephen Totilo, and reported on by GameSpot.
“NEWS: Bungie wins one other dishonest lawsuit: a $6.7 million award in opposition to Lavicheats, which it sued in 2021”, learn Totilo’s tweet. “Defendant by no means responded to the go well with. Was a default judgement. Bungie stated the cheats had been downloaded greater than 1,700 instances, says it spent $2m battling cheat-makers.”
NEWS: Bungie wins one other dishonest lawsuit: a $6.7 million award in opposition to 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
Extra particularly, the judgment punished LaviCheats for a lot of copyright and trademark legislation violations, whereas additionally awarding Bungie over $240,000 to cowl its authorized prices and lawyer charges.
Bungie’s authorized win got here after the proprietor of LaviCheats, who lives in India in accordance with a subsequent tweet from Totilo, failed to reply to the authorized motion, which was first filed again in 2021.
The previous few years have seen Bungie interact in a protracted authorized marketing campaign in opposition to cheat-makers by which it is gained a lot of victories, accruing hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in damages within the course of.
Earlier this week Bungie claimed a seperate authorized victory in opposition to the cheat-making firm VeteranCheats, this time profitable damages to the tune of $12 million. The corporate additionally lately revealed its powerful new coverage in the direction of gamers who would use third get together peripherals to govern the Future 2 sport consumer with a purpose to acquire an unfair benefit over different avid gamers, which might see it hand out restrictions and bans to offending gamers.
Anthony is a contract contributor masking science and video gaming information for IGN. He has over eight years expertise of masking breaking developments in a number of scientific fields and completely no time to your shenanigans. Comply with him on Twitter @BeardConGamer
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