Just a week after it promised to come down hard on Battle Royale participants that refuse to play by the rules, Epic Games is suing two alleged Fortnite cheaters.
However, neither defendant is being sued for the actual act of cheating; rather, Epic is suing both parties for alleged copyright infringement, arguing that the defendants’ cheating is “infringing Epic’s copyrights by injecting unauthorized computer code into the copyright protected code”.
Fortnite’s software is being intentionally modified, says Epic, to gain an unfair competitive advantage over other Fortnite players, and “in a deliberate attempt to destroy the integrity of, and otherwise wreak havoc” in Fortnite.
They are alleged to have used aimbotting software “with the deliberate intention of ruining the game for other players and players who watch streamers.”