Cheat Engine

Gwinx

Yes/no? Why?

goat69 · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:15 pm Post subject:

Not really.

It's your created material.

Cryoma · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:47 pm Post subject:

What happened to my long ass post?
To summarize: if your product in any way takes apart or modifies the code of copyrighted software without a license or other form of permission it is illegal to distribute, let alone sell.
If you simply input data to the software through task automation or botting, you're safe, but watch out for copyright infringement of names or logos etc.
I know this because I sell game bots and our group has a lawyer that has done intimate research on the topic.

Gwinx · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:59 pm Post subject:

Cryoma · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:44 pm Post subject:

atom0s · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:59 pm Post subject:

It depends on the nature of your hack(s).

Selling work you have made is perfectly legal as long as it doesn't infringe on the copyright(s) of the game, the game company, or any company associated with that game.

Cryoma · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:35 pm Post subject:

Gwinx · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:54 am Post subject:

Wow, thank you very much for creating all of the useful posts! I have another question, just to be clear, would I be violating any copyright laws if I were to use any of the game's item name, map name, item ID, map ID in my trainer? Oh, sorry, and... what do you mean by, "alter the binary..."? Sad

Dark Byte · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:39 am Post subject:

The author that created a bot for WoW (glider) got sued and lost their case (because it made a copy of the ram, so, copyright infringement)
The author that created a bot for runescape got sued and lost their case as well (not really clear on why this one, I think because they sold it)

Also Blizzard suing maphack authors for sc2 (Really, don't even buy diablo 3)

Kavvman · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:05 am Post subject:

You are ruining the experience of other gamers by cheating online so that is one point that is against the game TOS obviously. Another thing that all have missed here is most online games have cheating protection, you need to disable that for your "trainer" to work which is against the protection and the game TOS as well so pretty much "illegal".

The short answer is if its online, its just a matter of popularity and damage your "work" is doing before they will be bothered enough to sue you. They obviously won't and can't bother with everyone.

I remember EA banning so many users on bf3 just cause they were making use of a glitch in the game (good thing i didn't hehe) so that just shows how strict game companies are regarding this.

Gwinx · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:17 am Post subject:

atom0s · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:13 am Post subject:

In most cases the company will just send you a DMCA notice first. They are basically required to by law to do it. After that it is up to them to choose what else they feel is appropriate to protect their assets.

In most cases, they'll leave you alone if you comply with their DMCA notice.
But it depends on the company and how much they actually care.

Gwinx · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:39 pm Post subject:

why did gamersoul got sued?

Slugsnack · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:03 am Post subject:

Obitio · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:09 pm Post subject:

lol I heard s4hnx hacks on wolfteam got sued.And b6ooy had some trouble I think..but I'm not sure..then there's Joel's super hack.He sells the hack lol but I'm not sure about anything else.