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Destiny2 Cheater Legally Banned from Bungie games, owes $500k based on copyright (gamespot.com)
2 points by NikolaNovak on Sept 26, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I thought this might be Hacker News worthy due to method Bungie used to obtain judgment - primarily copyright claims against the Graphical UI cheating software used, if I understand matter correctly, which feels like a massive over-reach.


> The lawsuit claimed that Leone (like other cheaters Bungie's legal team has taken on in the past) had broken copyright law by using cheat software with a graphical overlay owned by Bungie, claiming that the use of "inject[ed] code" had created "unauthorized derivative work" that violates US copyright law.

Can't you create whatever the hell derivative works you want, as long as you don't distribute them?




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