Is It Illegal To Show Others How To Cheat In A Video Game?
Epic Games claims that it is in the company's copyright infringement suit filed against a 14-year-old boy.
Defendant is a cheater. Nobody likes a cheater. And nobody likes playing with cheaters.
— Epic Games, the creator of the insanely popular video game Fortnite, in allegations pleaded in an October 2017 copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Caleb Rogers, a 14-year-old boy. Epic Games claims that Rogers live-streamed himself using a cheat he found online, and then linked to the cheat method in his YouTube video’s description box. Check out Rogers’s YouTube response to the lawsuit below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSVeOQfujOQ
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