Epic Games is suing popular Fortnite YouTubers for cheating Epic Games is continuing to clamp down on cheating in its flagship game Fortnite, taking legal action against two prominent YouTubers who are accused of using and selling cheats. YouTuber Brandon \u2018Golden Modz\u2019 Lucas, who has over 1.7 million subscribers, and Colton \u2018Excentric\u2019 Conter are accused of being in breach of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. By sharing videos on YouTube using and promoting the cheats, Epic say they breached the terms of service and user agreement, committing \u201ctortious interference\u201d. The lawsuit accuses both Lucas and Conter of copyright infringement, by \u201cinjecting unauthorized cheat software (\u2018cheats\u2019 or \u2018hacks\u2019)\u201d into the game code. As well as using the cheats in videos, Golden Modz is accused of selling them through his own websites, which are promoted in his content. \u201cLucas is operating these websites and selling these cheats and accounts for his own personal enrichment. He posts videos of people using the cheats for the same reason. His ill-gotten gains come at the expense of Epic and members of the Fortnite community.\u201d Epic has requested that several videos from the two YouTubers be taken down, meanwhile Golden Modz doesn\u2019t believe he is in the wrong. In a video titled \u2018I am getting sued by Fortnite\u2026\u2019, he says: \u201cI\u2019m almost kind of feeling I\u2019m being discriminated against by Epic Games you know I\u2019m just a kid that\u2019s making YouTube videos and a lot of people were enjoying this.\u201d Epic want the accused to pay damages, attorney\u2019s fees and \u201ccosts related\u201d to the lawsuit. It is not the first time they have sued cheaters either, including when they filed a complaint against a 14 year old supposed cheater. Source: Torrent Freak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Epic Games is suing popular Fortnite YouTubers for cheating Epic Games is continuing to clamp down on cheating in its flagship game Fortnite, taking legal action against two prominent YouTubers who are accused of using and selling cheats. YouTuber Brandon \u2018Golden Modz\u2019 Lucas, who has over 1.7 million subscribers, and Colton \u2018Excentric\u2019 Conter are accused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}