Cheaters are one of the biggest problems of Call of Duty and especially the free Battle Royale Cod: War zone suffers from chunk players. Now Publisher Activision goes on a large cheat provider and has sued Engine owning.
That's why:
Call of Duty: War zone is a free Battle Royale booster and has longer problems with cheaters in the game. Cheat providers are developing and distributing programs that players securely secure themselves against their competitors. This violates the terms of use and copyright of Call of Duty. One of the most famous providers of such programs in Germany is Engine owning. Activision has now filed an action against the cheat provider in the US.
Activision wants all winnings or $2,500 per cheater
On January 4, 2022, Activision filed a lawsuit against the Cheat Provider Engine owning in front of a Californian court in the USA. You can view the complete application here (via DocumentCloud.com).
The application explains to 21 pages, as Call of Duty gains achieved, which influence cheats have on the games of the series and to what extent possible infringements were committed.
Activision claims to have lost millions of dollars in sales, which led to hundreds of thousands of dollars at Engine owning sales. How high the respective values are, the court should now determine.
Incidentally, the plaintiffs assume that Engine owning operates from Germany and at least 5 people with a German residence are partially listed by name and with residence in the document.
On what basis is the action? As cheats and cheating in video games are not prohibited by law, the charge for copyright infringements and violations of the Terms of Use.
How much does Activision sued the cheat provider? deposited in the text, are 2 basics for a possible damages calculation:
Activision calls for all profits from the sales of the programs Activision calls $2,500 (about €2,200) per sold product in the field of land
Furthermore, Activision assumes at least thousands of players residing in the USA, use or using Cheat programs of Engine owning. Even with only 2,000 users (the minimum of thousands ) this would be a sum of $5 million (about 4.2 million euros).
In addition, Activision wants to see all the information about the sales of engine owning in the US, as well as all copies of the distributed cheat programs
How is it now? The thing goes to court, and it has to be clarified whether and in what amount is damage caused:
In previous complaints against cheat providers of Call of Duty, it has not been a negotiation — even large providers have voluntarily abandoned their services to avoid a procedure. Engine owning has not expressed itself on his official channels so far. We from Mango have requested a statement, but has not received an answer so far. If the provider is offline, it would probably be affected, among other things, cheat programs for Battlefield, Halo or Split gate.
However, it must first show whether the prosecution is also right. Before conviction, the presumption of innocence applies.
Blizzard sued a bot provider from Germany a few years ago:
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