Overwatch Cheat Maker Told To Pay $8.6 Million in Damages to Blizzard

Last summer, Blizzard, the developer of Overwatch and World of Wacraft, filed a lawsuit against a German company that sold cheat tools for its games. Blizzard sued for Bossland for "copyright infringement, unfair competition and violation of the DMCA's anti-circumvention provision".

Last month, despite Bossland's resistance, we learned that Blizzard was seeking about $8.5 milion (around £6.83 million) in damages, and now a California court just ordered the cheat-maker company to pay $8.6 million.

According to Torrentfreak, Blizzard argued that Bossland had"reverse-engineered and otherwise altered its games without permission". Bossland didn't defend itself in court, and was found guilty of 42, 818 counts of copyright infringement. Torrentfreak also reports that Bossland also owes $177,000 in legal costs beyond the court-ordered charge.

The BBC reported that Bossland's website was still active and still showing the headline, "botting is not against the law" --but when I tried to access it just now, it's showing the following message:

"On 16th March 2017, Bossland GmbH, and its directors Mr Zwetan Letschew and Mr Patrick Kirk admitted, in and for the purposes of proceedings before the High Court of England and Wales, that the sale of its software which it sells as Honorbuddy, Gatherbuddy, Demonbuddy, Hearthbuddy, Stormbuddy and Watchover Tyrant, to any person resident in the United Kingdom, constitutes an infringement of Blizzard's intellectual property rights and an inducement to players of Blizzard's games to breach their agreements with Blizzard.

"Accordingly, Bossland and its directors are no longer permitted to advertise or offer for sale such software to UK residents."

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