AimJunkies, a website which offers cheats for numerous multiplayer games including PUBG: Battlegrounds, Battlefield V, and previously, Destiny 2, has prepared a number of subpoenas (writs, commanding people to attend court) to retaliate against Bungie, who previously alleged copyright infringement against the site for their cheats, Eurogamer reports. Bungie accused the alleged creators of the software, Phoenix Digital Group, of the same thing.
As TorrentFreak writes, the site argue that cheating isn’t against the law, and that the in-game overlays offered by the cheat software are similar to those that Steam provide. The subpoenas they’ve prepared reportedly aim to uncover Destiny 2 player count numbers from Valve, and gain the assistance of Google and PayPal to track down someone who violated their cheat software’s terms of service.
“Bungie claims that we created derivative works and presents images found on a [competitor’s] site claiming they are our software products. It is our belief OUR offering of software product was just doing what Steam and countless others do with overlays,” Phoenix Digital Group wrote in a press release (via TorrentFreak). “The Steam overlay and others like, we believe are not derivative works.”
“Bungie also claims that we caused grievous harm to their game when in fact some of their most popular months of player counts and sales were during the time AimJunkies offered their software products,” they continued. “We believe and intend to gather actionable proof of that and disprove another one of their wild assertions.”
Topics: Bungie