"A YouTube gamer who posted videos of himself cheating at Fortnite is being sued by its developer Epic Games.
Brandon Lucas has attracted 1.7 million subscribers to his Golden Modz channel, where he plays modified or hacked versions of Fortnite and other games.
He also runs a website where he sells cheats, such as automatic aiming, for more than $200 (£150).
“Defendants are cheaters. Nobody likes a cheater,” Epic Games said in its legal filing.
“Defendant Lucas not only cheats, he also promotes, advertises, and sells software that enables those who use it to cheat,” the document states."
I mean, on one side this is only a game, so it’s stupid to sue a person for that, on the other side, he actually doesn’t follow the rules so it’s a point there. I don’t know what to think, if games didn’t become jobs at some point as now it is, I’d call that totally retarded, but as they are, in fact, considered as “work tools” at some point, it actually depends on the developer’s rules. On top of that, if you’re partnered with YT, they actually might consider that as cheating at the work place, therefore suing him has a strong point an is reasonable. Hope Epic Games win this at this point. Feel free to agree/disagree with me. Kinda curious what others think of that.
Well, good. What’s to even discuss here. Another mommy should be proud.
“Oh, but others cheat, I’m big youtuber, so I thought I can do it too, lololol.”. Advertising hacks, promoting them on youtube as “magical powers”, because kids know no better and will buy them, right? Good job. 2018 Darwin Award.
It’s like those punks from prank videos, when they seriously piss people off, they cry “it’s only a prank, maaaaan, only a prank!” so suddenly people should forget about it and stop being mad about it. I like when they get fatally fucked up in return, same here. 0 sympathy.
What rules? He sell 3rd party software, i fail to see any illegal activity in such dead. Did Fornite turned intro a casino with RMT ? Then its better to stay away from such place.
Someone simply cheating is one thing, and if it was a SP game then I wouldn’t give a monkeys, but for online games these are designed to mess up legitimate paying players and most importantly… He wasn’t just cheating he was profiting very well on selling these cheats (monthly subscription costs to use), so in my view he’s deliberately making money off someone else’s work / property, as well as ruining the legitimates paying players game and expecting to keep all the money for himself.
The price is what surprised me most when I read about this the otherday, there’s seriously people with far too much money…just stunned that it was selling so well…:eek::eek:
Well he has a 1.7 million subscriber base which is fairly substantial if you’re a YouTuber. It’s not too hard to imagine a good portion of that base are largely morons, especially considering his particular topic he covered. Most the people who use hacks like that can barely turn on a computer on their own, they just like to pretend calling themselves the coveted “hacker” name when everyone who knows the truth about online game “hackers” knows that 99.9% of these people are just using someone elses hack.
Racking my memory - it’s either people with low self-esteem who find winning via cheating to be helpful with that issue, those who to an irrationally obsessive degree can’t stand loosing and plain old stupid trolls. The sort who haven’t yet worked out trolling via the game itself is actually more fun.
Anyhow - on topic, this kids is why you try and read the end user agreement before you go and try and modify/add to a game. Because certain publishers will insert language that gives them the right to sue you if you modify the game in certain ways or deny you the right to profit of selling those types of modifications via copyright rights. Which means this particular idiot is about to wind up probably bankrupt because he forgot to hide himself effectively, making it very easy for Epic to drag him into court.
Heh, don’t look at the prices for Star Citizen’s jpg’s of ships then. For a whale and their money are very easily parted to make them feel special. Whether it’s SC’s ship jpg’s to show off how wealthy they are or cheats to make them be able to win in an MP game for once.
Well, I expect the police were there too, but lawyers for the company seem to be doing the actual searching.
"The search order identified two Melbourne locations to be raided, allowing lawyers to enter the target residences and vehicles to search, copy, and remove all relevant evidence, computers, or storage devices related to the Infamous cheat. Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games are both identified as “applicants” for the search order. Two lawyers from the Bird & Bird law firm representing Rockstar and Take-Two were part of the “search party” that was allowed to look through their computers, along with independent lawyers and an independent “computer expert.”
I think you’ll find it’s more a case of becoming normal in anti piracy complaints as the companies involved have very deep pockets and very expensive lawers
Edit…Slightly off topic ish. Is the fact that all these American companies (RIAA, MPAA etc) pressure the American government to threaten other countries with political pressure / trade sanctions etc if they don’t block access to various pirate websites, yet afaik there’s not a single website blocked or ever been requested to be blocked by these companies in America. I really fail to understand this “elephant in the room” of America demanding the rest of the world block web access to these sites while leaving them all fully unblocked in America :rolleyes:
