Bungie wins its Destiny 2 cheat maker court case, taking home five figure chump change while potentially setting a bad precedent

The ruling might by the first of its kind.

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Bungie has now won its lawsuit against Destiny 2 cheat sellers AimJunkies/ Phoenix Digital, though it’s not much of a win.

Earlier this week, the trial between Bungie and cheat sellers AimJunkies began, and as reported by Stephen Totilo, it was a win for the Destiny 2 developer. This was a pretty landmark case, as it might be the first time a jury, in the US at the very least, has ruled on a game cheating case. The result has led to Bungie receiving a measly (for it, anyway) $63,210 in damages, obviously not a huge sum, but it is just the amount that Bungie will have supposedly lost due to the cheat-selling.

Breaking: Bungie has won its lawsuit against Aimjunkies/Phoenix Digital. Just five figures in damages, since only the revenue for the cheats was in play Jury sided with Bungie. Rejected Aimjunkies’ counterclaim alleging Bungie illegally went into one of their computers https://t.co/dx3KKsFzYy — Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) May 24, 2024

Important to note is that in most cases cheat sellers/ makers just give up when developers impose legal pressures on them, as going up against big companies can obviously be a huge financial risk, but as reported by Totilo at Game File , AimJunkie/ Phoenix Digital actually counter-sued Bungie, themselves alleging that the developer had accessed the person who allegedly violated Bungie’s copyright James May’s computer “without his authorization, [then] accessed one or more copyrighted works on his personal computer.”

I’m not exactly pro-cheating, especially in cases where the makers of them are just kind of profiting off of people who just want an easy win, though there’s obviously a concern here when a big company comes out as the winner in a case about copyright issues. You really shouldn’t cheat, though, it is quite annoying.

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