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Chronic Pokémon GO: hackers pay $ 5 million
The legal case between Niantic and Global ++ is coming to an end. On Tuesday, a solution was found by the two parties to settle their dispute. Suriplay looks back on the whole story in the second daily of the day.
Founded in 2010, Niantic is a company specializing in the link between entertainment and cartography. She found success with the release of Pokémon GO, for which she partnered with Nintendo and The Pokemon Company. Thanks to an augmented reality system, the game transforms players into trainers: by walking in the city armed with their smartphone, they can meet Pokémon and capture them. The very principle of the application, available on iOS and Android, is therefore to walk and interact with the people encountered.
Pokémon GO without walking
The game is therefore built around a mechanic forcing players to walk in real life. Therefore, SuriPlay explains that a group of hackers named Global++ offered an alternative version of the application, identical to the original but allowing players to cheat: they could make the game believe they were moving.
An initiative that Niantic did not appreciate: the studio filed a complaint in 2019 against the group, in particular for intellectual property infringement. A story that ended on Tuesday since Global++ lost the case. Following a mutual agreement between the two parties, the hacker group is to pay $ 5 million in damages, and must remove alternative copies of Niantic’s games.
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