Destiny 2 cheat maker claims it hasn't harmed the game, says Bungie should work with it
Bungie ran into a bit of a snag in its legal campaign against Destiny 2 cheat sellers in May when a Seattle judge dismissed its copyright infringement complaint(opens in new tab) against cheat maker AimJunkies. Bungie had argued that the development of cheats was an infringement of its copyright, while AimJunkies defends its software as an original creation—and the judge agreed with AimJunkies.
That wasn't the end of the matter. Other elements of Bungie's lawsuit remained intact, including allegations of trademark infringement and «false designation of origin,» and the studio was given time to restate the copyright infringement portion of its case. A few weeks later it did just that, alleging that AimJunkies «reverse-engineered and copied the software code for Destiny 2» in order to make its cheat software.
To make the cheat software's ESP feature, for instance, which enables users to see other players through walls, Bungie alleged that AimJunkies «copied the Destiny 2 software code that corresponds to the data structures for player positioning [in] Destiny 2, and reverse engineered the software code for Destiny 2’s rendering functions.»
The revised complaint is definitely more detailed, but AimJunkies isn't backing down—in fact, according to a new Torrentfreak(opens in new tab) report, the cheat maker is stepping up its own legal action in defense of its software and the right to sell it. The site says AimJunkies is issuing subpoenas to Valve, PayPal, and Google, seeking information that it apparently hopes will prove that its cheats did not cause damage to Bungie, contrary to what the studio has claimed.
In a press release posted on the site, AimJunkies also defended its Destiny 2 overlay, saying it's no different
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