Fortnite cheater YouTuber sued by Epic Games

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Fortnite cheat YouTuber sued by Epic Games

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45876864

 

A YouTube gamer who posted videos of himself cheating at Fortnite is being sued by its developer Epic Games.

Brandon Lucas has attracted 1.7 million subscribers to his Golden Modz channel, where he plays modified or hacked versions of Fortnite and other games.

He also runs a website where he sells cheats, such as automatic aiming, for more than $200 (£150).

"Defendants are cheaters. Nobody likes a cheater," Epic Games said in its legal filing.

"Defendant Lucas not only cheats, he also promotes, advertises, and sells software that enables those who use it to cheat," the document states.

 

One of the hacks available on Mr Lucas's website is aimbot, which lets players automatically target and kill enemies without having to aim their weapon. 

It is only available for the PC version of the game, but offers a significant competitive advantage to any player using the cheat.

In Mr Lucas's latest YouTube video he "trolls default skins" - players who may be new and have yet to change their character's appearance.

Several other videos in which he used the aimbot cheat have been removed from YouTube following a copyright complaint from Epic Games.

Another YouTube gamer, Colton Conter, is also named in the legal filing.

 

In the documents, Epic Games said the cheaters were "creating unauthorised derivative works of Fortnite by unlawfully modifying the game's code".

The company told the BBC it did not comment on active legal cases.

But it said in a statement: "When cheaters use aimbots or other cheat technologies to gain an unfair advantage, they ruin games for people who are playing fairly. We take cheating seriously, and we'll pursue all available options to make sure our games are fun, fair, and competitive for players."

Epic Games is headquartered in the US state of North Carolina. The case was filed in the Eastern District of North Carolina.

In October, Epic Games took over anti-cheat software firm Kamu as part of its efforts to tackle unauthorised modifications to its games.

 

In a video called, Golden Modz sued by Fortnite, Mr Lucas said he was not sure why Epic Games had taken action.

"I'm confused because there's about a thousand other content creators on YouTube that make Fortnite content," he said in the video, adding that others used hacks "without repercussions".

[J4MES OX4D 10,034]

It's fucking unreal that these morons can happily have a YouTube channel advertising this illegal practice and Google do nothing about it. Epic should be suing them too. 

[GazzaGarratt 11,049]

It's fucking unreal that these morons can happily have a YouTube channel advertising this illegal practice and Google do nothing about it. Epic should be suing them too. 

It's crazy how YouTube plays a blind eye to all this crap, just like the Logan incident some months ago. They clearly don't want to lose their share of advertising revenue.

Separate to that though - how can there be fun in an aimbot?? You don't even have to try so it's pointless playing the game. I know some love stats but if they know they are fudged stats I can't get my head around how they feel awesome about it. All for £150 aswell.

[Dan94 913]

It's crazy how YouTube plays a blind eye to all this crap, just like the Logan incident some months ago. They clearly don't want to lose their share of advertising revenue.

Separate to that though - how can there be fun in an aimbot?? You don't even have to try so it's pointless playing the game. I know some love stats but if they know they are fudged stats I can't get my head around how they feel awesome about it. All for £150 aswell.

I think the whole 'there's no such thing as bad publicity' is probably what goes through YouTubes head when shit like this gets posted on their sites


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On 10/17/2018 at 10:24 AM, Dan94 said:

I think the whole 'there's no such thing as bad publicity' is probably what goes through YouTubes head when shit like this gets posted on their sites


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I've been down the youtube rabbit hole. They are absolutely ruthless in their defense of their income. I've seen how little of a shit they give about content creators first hand. Their algorithm is very simple:

 

Will this affect us if we leave it up? If yes, remove. If no, leave there. The content doesn't matter, you could post a vid containing the cure to cancer and it's fine. Add in 3 seconds of some bullshit song nobody knows? Gone. They don't negotiate, they don't help, they don't offer any advice, nothing. They'll send you an email saying that you contravened their T&Cs and the vid is taken down and that's the end of it.

 

They went thru a phase where they'd remove the audio or stick ads over the content without giving a shit to claim some money but those days are gone. 

 

This Fortnite player is generating income for Google and regardless of the community, it'll stay forever, because money > everything. 

 

I've been on the dark side of most of these companies' products, whether it be Adsense, Adwords, Youtube, Google Analytics, the lot. I can say from first hand experience that when it comes to the bottom line, zero fucks are given. Ever.