Bungie was awarded $63k, but most importantly won under the argument that reverse engineering Destiny 2 violated their copyright.
Reverse engineering has historically being protected under US law, with the DMCA making exceptions to allow it for interoperability.
This could signal that any form of reverse engineering, even clean room reverse engineering, could be deemed illegal and punished as a copyright violation.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/bungie-wins-lawsuit-against-cheat-maker-aimjunkies
Nowhere near enough detail in the article. Certainly not enough to draw conclusions from.
https://archive.ph/8beHz
Have the archive.
The ironic thing being is that Bungie has endangered the PC platform considering the very legality of the IBM compatibles market rests on the legality of reverse engineering. If that is reversed and Lenovo/IBM start suing, this could end up becoming the worst case of punching yourself in the face that we have seen.
Aimbots should not be seen as "reverse engineering a product." Reverse engineering has some morally acceptable reasons. Such as designing parts for repairs to a product that you purchased but the own has overpriced repair fees.
Aimbots are more akin to unleveling a playing field in order to win outside the rules of a game. If this was track and field, the cheater would be running downhill. If this was poker, they'd get to see their opponents' hands.
I'm curious why Bungie couldn't win under the argument that Phoenix what is distributing software designed to harm Bungie's platform, given that Destiny 2 is an online service.
in any case, I wish this would be appealed but I doubt it will be. there's no way this President would hold up in the Supreme Court.
President or precedent? Perhaps both?
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Disgusting and dangerous.Reverse engineering found out how some of these tech companies were breaking products on purpose.
Possibly one of the few times I'd end up agreeing with the actions of a big studio because these cheaters are rampant and they definitely ruin the experience for everyone else. It would be one thing if they were just fucking around with the co-op grind which would be more hilarious but like in GTA V for example they actively fuck with other peoples' accounts in order to get them banned.
Edit: Had to re-read to double check but I get peoples' concerns just to clarify, it's baffling they couldn't simply go "This is hacking and they're fucking up the end user experience", a classic example of why boomers shouldn't be regulating tech.
The defense was "it's not hacking it's reverse engineering" and the judge said "how about no"