I'd bet it's because in this trial, not only was a jury deciding the case, but the arguments being made by Epic were mainly about Google making misleading claims, abusing their position of control of Android itself to give their software advantages in the market, and outright privately paying developers to not make or use other app stores. I agree that this ruling doesn't make sense when Epic v Apple went the other direction, but I think that's more because a trial with a judge deciding will lean more towards upholding the law as written, over the intentions of that law or what most people would consider the "fair" decision. Apple had a good argument that their system was LEGAL, not that it was good for anyone other than Apple or that it wasn't a monopoly by the dictionary definition. Google lost because they didn't argue to convince the jury nearly as much as they did to show they were following the law as a lawyer or judge would see it. Jury nullification is an extreme example of this kind of dissonance, where a jury will vote entirely based on what they think is the fair outcome of the trial. And honestly, I think we're better off in a world where more cases are decided by juries, rather than letting judges determine both if a law was broken and what the punishment is. When the ethics investigators for the judiciary are made of sitting judges, headed by the chief justice of the supreme court, I'm inclined to believe that maybe juries should have a larger role.
as destiny 2 is a mmo, I think cheating in it may involve accessing the servers in unintended ways, so there may be more of a case there under the CFAA. I hardly think cheating software for a multiplayer game could work while accessing the servers only as allowed under whatever EULA you have to sign to play.
while claiming copyright infringement to sue cheat makers is ridiculous, wouldn't making cheats for a online game involve reverse engineering or de compiling the game, including the parts that aren't distributed to users, like the servers run by Bungie? it seems like that would be more likely to be illegal, although i know there are cases like the super mario 64 decompilation where its fully legal under fair use. I do play destiny 2 a lot, so i am pretty biased towards wanting these cheat makers to be put out of business.
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I'd bet it's because in this trial, not only was a jury deciding the case, but the arguments being made by Epic were mainly about Google making misleading claims, abusing their position of control of Android itself to give their software advantages in the market, and outright privately paying developers to not make or use other app stores. I agree that this ruling doesn't make sense when Epic v Apple went the other direction, but I think that's more because a trial with a judge deciding will lean more towards upholding the law as written, over the intentions of that law or what most people would consider the "fair" decision. Apple had a good argument that their system was LEGAL, not that it was good for anyone other than Apple or that it wasn't a monopoly by the dictionary definition. Google lost because they didn't argue to convince the jury nearly as much as they did to show they were following the law as a lawyer or judge would see it. Jury nullification is an extreme example of this kind of dissonance, where a jury will vote entirely based on what they think is the fair outcome of the trial. And honestly, I think we're better off in a world where more cases are decided by juries, rather than letting judges determine both if a law was broken and what the punishment is. When the ethics investigators for the judiciary are made of sitting judges, headed by the chief justice of the supreme court, I'm inclined to believe that maybe juries should have a larger role.
as destiny 2 is a mmo, I think cheating in it may involve accessing the servers in unintended ways, so there may be more of a case there under the CFAA. I hardly think cheating software for a multiplayer game could work while accessing the servers only as allowed under whatever EULA you have to sign to play.
while claiming copyright infringement to sue cheat makers is ridiculous, wouldn't making cheats for a online game involve reverse engineering or de compiling the game, including the parts that aren't distributed to users, like the servers run by Bungie? it seems like that would be more likely to be illegal, although i know there are cases like the super mario 64 decompilation where its fully legal under fair use. I do play destiny 2 a lot, so i am pretty biased towards wanting these cheat makers to be put out of business.