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Bungie has won its court battle against cheat and mod site, AimJunkies.<\/p>\n

As reported by journalist Stephen Totilo, AimJunkies, aka Phoenix Digital, was instructed to pay the Destiny 2 developer $63,210 in damages – that’s the revenue the company is thought to have earned selling the cheats – setting a new precedent in what’s thought to be the first lawsuit wherein a jury has ruled on a game-cheating case.<\/p>\n

The jury threw out AimJunkie’s countersuit that Bungie had illegally accessed one of its computers, but founder David Schaefer says they will “fight this” and appeal the verdict.<\/p>\n

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Bungie has won its court battle against cheat and mod site, AimJunkies. As reported by journalist Stephen Totilo, AimJunkies, aka Phoenix Digital, was instructed to pay the Destiny 2 developer $63,210 in damages – that’s the revenue the company is thought to have earned selling the cheats – setting a new precedent in what’s thought to be the first lawsuit wherein a jury has ruled on a game-cheating case. The jury threw out AimJunkie’s countersuit that Bungie had illegally accessed one of its computers, but founder David Schaefer says they will “fight this” and appeal the verdict. 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