Epic Games has settled a 2017 lawsuit against a 14-year-old Fortnite player who allegedly made YouTube videos with cheating software.
As he points out PC player, court documents do not contain the details of the agreement. Epic sued the 14-year-old for the first time 2017, claiming that he had downloaded and used cheating software and that he showed other players how to use it in his YouTube videos. Epic also claimed that the player had infringed on Epic’s copyright by using traps to modify the game’s code, and that he had created a secondary YouTube channel elude to DMCA from his video on YouTube. “The defendant is a cheater,” Epic wrote in his document initial complaint, adding harshly: “Nobody likes to cheat. And nobody likes to play with cheaters ”.
In response to the initial lawsuit, the child’s mother wrote a passionate letter to the courts, answering Epic’s claims and saying the company “used a 14-year-old boy as a scapegoat.”
While Epic was wildly chasing a minor in 2017, suing individual trappers feels a bit quaint now considering the amount Fortnite the traps have exploded since then. The 2019 Fortnite World Cup was full of stuff cheating scandals in the qualifiers. Most notably, the XXiF World Cup competitor received a temporary suspension to form a team during the playoffs and fans encouraged their removal during the World Cup match. Epic has tried to renew his competitive rules, but casual and professional players they have continued to find ways to fool the parties, particularly those of 2020 FNCS.
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Many other gaming companies have also gone after cheaters. Last month, Riot and B.nail filed a joint lawsuit against trap sellers, who will at least look for the source of the problem, rather than the children who use them.