Epic Games settles their first lawsuit against Fortnite cheater

[WYP]

The cheater will be forced to pay $5,000 in damages if he breaks his agreement with Epic.



Read more about Epic's settlement with their first Fortnite cheater.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Got away easy. Slap on the wrist was basically it.

 

[looz]

I'm still not happy that a game company could take someone to court over cheating.

 

[Warchild]

I'm still not happy that a game company could take someone to court over cheating.

Well thats not why. He was broadcasting on youtube to the world on how to cheat. Destroys a games reputation when backdoors/hacks etc are found. Even more so when someone promotes the flaws.

 

[looz]

Is the reputation being destroyed by a kid making videos or them being poor at preventing cheating?

It's a monstrously inefficient way at tacking cheating. Just like piracy court cases, pure scaremongering, when in reality you tackle cheating and piracy by upping your game and making piracy/cheating less appealing. See: Spotify, Netflix, Overwatch

 

[Warchild]

Is the reputation being destroyed by a kid making videos or them being poor at preventing cheating?

It's a monstrously inefficient way at tacking cheating. Just like piracy court cases, pure scaremongering, when in reality you tackle cheating and piracy by upping your game and making piracy/cheating less appealing. See: Spotify, Netflix, Overwatch

I agree, its incredibly inefficient and a waste of resources. However when you consider the principle, they have a right to do so.