Bungie has been busy these previous couple of years with numerous lawsuits. The studio has been ruthless with how they take care of gamers dishonest or hacking – they usually’ve now filed go well with in opposition to a hacker who reportedly made direct threats to their employees.
The corporate can be suing Luca Leone (through PC Gamer), who created a number of accounts to ban evade whereas additionally streaming himself dishonest and making threats in opposition to the developer.
This began on December 6, 2021 when Leone was streaming on Twitch below the identify “Miffysworld”, Leone created an account that had the username, “!” which was banned on Might 22, 2022 after he was caught dishonest. Leone would then go on to create a collection of latest accounts together with: GOT 2 GET IT, TRAP$TAR MIFFY, ugl1kgwj4kn7emj, why, gerogetwo, Bungie, and bungiemad, and hahahalolxd.
Leone would go on to mock the developer on social media for not having the ability to cease him from hacking their sport, making feedback taunting the Battleye anti-cheat software program, “7 bans in and nonetheless going robust Bungie battleye is shit took me 30 seconds to get round your foolish {hardware} ban.”
Leone would additionally go on to straight make threats in opposition to growth employees corresponding to tweeting out that he can be shifting half-hour away from the place firm neighborhood supervisor, Dylan Gafner lived following it up by saying, “he isn’t secure”. He additionally tweeted that the event studios higher preserve their doorways locked.
Lastly, Bungie claims that Leone offered accounts and symbols on well-liked third-party marketplaces and thus, infringed on the developer’s copyright.
Bungie has requested for a jury trial within the matter and is searching for $150,000 for every rely of copyright violation which, analytics notice could possibly be 13 counts, or $1.95 million {dollars}. This may solely cowl the copyright violations and the studio will search extra in punative damages on high of this.
That is trying to be an fascinating case, and we’ll report on it once we obtain new info.