Bungie has won another lawsuit, this time against cheat-seller Mihai Claudiu-Florentin, known as VeteranCheats, for selling Destiny cheats.
As reported by TheGamePost (via PCGamer), the lawsuit–which Bungie filed back in 2021–has been ruled in the developer’s favor, resulting in Claudiu-Florentin now being ordered to pay $12 million to Bungie. The Destiny developer had been seeking such a figure since February this year, which the court has granted, noting that it deemed Bungie to have provided enough evidence for its allegations of copyright infringement and breach of contract.
In terms of specifics, Bungie was looking for $11,696,000 in damages based on the DMCA breaches–asking for $2000 for each of the 5848 downloads that Claudiu-Florentin profited from–as well as $146,662.28 for “actual damages,” caused by the copyright infringement, with $217,250.70 in attorney fees on top of that. This makes for a total of $12,059,912.98, which ended up being the full amount that the court granted.