https://kotaku.com/14-year-old-video-game-cheater-sued-mom-defends-him-1820752579
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YouTube Commentary from copyright attorney Leonard French discussing the letter the mother penned:
Last month, Epic took the unusual step of not just banning two Fortnite players from the game for cheating, but taking them to court. It's since been revealed that one of the accused is only 14 years old, and his mother is not happy.
She has addressed the court directly through a letter, which attacks Epic's handling of the case on a number of grounds.
There's also the matter, as TorrentFreak point out, that you can't actually sue a minor directly, raising the possibility that Epic didn't even know the full identity of the accused before going ahead with the case.
- She says that Fortnite's terms require parental consent for minors, and that she never gave this consent.
- She says the case is based on a loss of profits, but argues that it's a free-to-play video game, and that in order to prove a loss Epic would need to provide a statement certifying that Rogers' cheating directly caused a "mass profit loss".
- She claims that by going after individual players, rather than the websites selling/providing the software necessary to cheat in an online game, Epic is "using a 14 year-old child as a scapegoat".
- Finally, the mother says that by releasing her son's name publicly in conjunction with the move that Epic has violated Delaware laws related to the release of information on minors.
The cases began last month, when Epic began taking action against individual users who had used the site Addicted Cheats to obtain "aimbots" that would give them a competitive edge in the game
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According to the complaints, both defendants seem to offer technical support for AddictedCheats.com and, with cheats the site provides, monitor streams and intentionally prevent streamers from winning. This practice, which is known as "stream sniping," has been a semi-frequent and much-derided fad among the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds community—a game that Fortnite's new battle royale mode expressly took some cues from. While Battlegrounds explicitly forbids cheating and stream-sniping in its rules of conduct, Fortnite'sonly explicitly forbids cheating. One defendant had been banned from playing Fortnite nine times. In response, he allegedly registered several other accounts with different names to continue playing Fortnite and stream-sniping. According to the complaint, when asked why he stream-snipes, the defendant said, "Because its [sic] fun to rage and see streamers cry about how loaded they are and then get them stomped anyways."
When Epic Games altered Fortnite's code to prevent further cheating, the second defendant allegedly found a work-around with, adding, "Now method is exposed . . . Epic Eat my ass." Over Discord chat, both defendants declined to comment. Over Addicted Cheats' Discord channel, an affiliate said that they're not offering refunds to Fortnitecheaters who purchased their services.
YouTube Commentary from copyright attorney Leonard French discussing the letter the mother penned:
OP should probably be updated with the full complete story. Also heres the time link. https://youtu.be/G5lMFjME9qI?t=5m46s
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