Fate 2 cheats Seller AimJunkies was ordered to pay Bungie more than $4.3 million in damages and costs. According to the arbitration, Judge Ronald Cox says the evidence clearly indicated that the site and third-party developer James May violated the DMCA. Bungie and AimJunkies have been embroiled in lawsuits since 2021, and their legal battle will continue despite this ruling.
Most of the $4.3 million reward comes from traffic violations
According to TorrentFreak, Judge Cox found that AimJunkies and James May circumvented Bungie’s technical protection measures in violation of the DMCA, stating that May repeatedly testified that she “connected reverse engineering tools to the process. from Destiny 2 to reverse engineer and develop a cheat for the game. May also attempted to circumvent bans put in place by Bungie after getting caught multiple times.
Although May is not an employee of AimJunkies or its parent company Phoenix Digital, the judge said that Phoenix Digital can still be held liable because it sold and profited from May’s Destiny 2 cheats and cheats.
Most of the $4.3 million reward comes from traffic violations, where the judge found that Phoenix Digital not only sold more than 1,000 copies of the cheats, but more than 1,000 copies of the “cheat loader used to inject cheats”. Destiny 2 Process”. Each of those 1,361 violations amounted to $2,500 in damages per violation, for a total of more than $3.4 million.
Another lawsuit by Bungie against AimJunkies for copyright infringement is set to go to trial. AimJunkies says Bungie violated their terms of service by reverse-engineering their cheat software, but Bungie hopes to use that arbitration decision as part of its defense at trial.