Hacker sells cheats for Overwatch, Blizzard smacks him with 8.6 million dollaridoos lawsuit

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[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;52058970][media]https://twitter.com/garrynewman/status/849298220803133441[/media][/QUOTE]

Do it garry

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[QUOTE=Omali;52058532]Reverse engineering the software violates dmca, which is a crime. Circumventing anti-cheat software also violates the dmca, which is a crime. Selling software that by design directly damages a company through lost customers and damaged customer relations is a crime.

Don't muddy the issue.[/QUOTE]

Just because something is a "crime" doesn't mean it's enforced, jaywalking is a crime and how often have you seen or heard of that being enforced?

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[QUOTE=BANNED USER;52058977]Can't this set a precedent not only for multuplayer cheat distributors, but also earnest people who reverse engineer old games?[/QUOTE]

If you're earnestly reverse engineering old games for yourself or a handful of others you're probably not charging or even posting it publicly in the first place. I think charging money is the real clincher, if you were distributing for free, they'd probably just send a C&D, maybe further action if you ignore it.

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[QUOTE=CruelAddict;52058385]Violating EULA is a crime?[/QUOTE]

It's a legally binding contract, so yes.

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Right before Overwatch actually launched there was a site advertising they were making an Overwatch cheat. I remember telling my friend at Blizzard about it the next day and he said it was already dealt with. I went back to the site and saw everything Overwatch related removed.

Blizzard is fucking fantastic at scaring cheat makers, and I'm guessing it's because of how many people cheat on their games in Korea free gaming places that they had to innovate on cheat prevention.

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[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;52058970][media]https://twitter.com/garrynewman/status/849298220803133441[/media][/QUOTE]

Garry loves to harvest Rust tears, huh?