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Originally Posted by Exodiasgodwz
Does anyone even know what’s a Cease & Desist?
A Cease & Desist is not an “order”. It is a “warning” or request. One is not legally obliged to a Cease & Desist.
Let’s say you’re a cheat provider and Activision sends you a C&D, you can always choose to ignore it.
If you ignore it, the company then will MAY proceed to take legal actions (sue)
Although Activision is a multi billion dollar company, it is to note that it will cost them millions of dollars to open a civil suit.
Why millions of dollar, because no law firm in the right mind would want less from a billion dollar company.
Although Activision is fully capable of suing cheat providers in court because obviously they got the resources, the question is, is it worth it? Probably not considering how stingy their company is and they would be better off investing such resources in upgrading their own trash instead.
Have you seen any game company actually bringing cheat devs to court? Not that I heard or seen of.
Some cheat companies at actual legally registered entities, hence making it easier for Activision to track them down and “scare” them with a c&D.
Whereas there are private developers whom identity still remains unknown, making it impossible to open an actual civil litigation on them.
Of course a C&D can be sent via any channel such as email, text, discord, chats etc.
But an actual Writ (sue) has to be sent to the individual or company via correct channel because of the company or person does not receive the writ, they can’t commence any proceedings or claims.
It is no surprise that companies like x22, EO receive C&D, however EO have always been ignoring treats by Activision because their company is registered in a 3rd world country that no one really gives a shit about.
So it is ignorant to think that a C&D is a legal obligation. It is not. It is not a court order. It is just a scare tactic.
So let’s say for example in a very unlikely scenario a cheat dev got sued and brought to court, Activision will gain nothing after spending millions and knowing there are still 30 more cheat devs out there and they are just doing other cheat devs a huge favour to kill a competitor.
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nothing to gain in terms of short term monetary gain, sure. but that would not be activision's objective in suing a cheat provider. Cheat devs are fucking with activisions money. They have plenty to gain destroying a dev in court if they can get one there. And you can imagine this scene would change dramatically if the day comes.
you cant fuck with people who have 100x as much money as you. If Activision decides its personal, they'll define whats "worth it". making an example out of a company by public drawn out legal execution could be worth millions to them. could be nothing compared to business theyd make if it causes a ripple effect on this market, more devs say f this and CoD see's resurgence in player counts.
Def some people on here are confused about Cnds not being a legal order, but the warning is much more formal than you're downplaying it. a scare tactic indeed, but much less frightening to us, the ones who have no risk, our names aren't on it and our only bias is... we want cheats.
For devs with a CnD, if you're already getting wealthy selling cheats and one of them can be the end of your hustle for good, it's simple, the risk does not outweigh the reward. Walk away. Dont lose your business.
Sometime you gotta eat shit, thats business. some devs have discontinued but they made those decisions based on all of the facts within, not the epvp speculation mill. which will tell you they're "scared of the new anti-cheat". Bogus... They thought about the money they stand to lose and noped the f out.
The best thing devs can do is protect their identities like its the lifeline of their business, because if they know who you are and decide to spend that drop-in-the-bucket money to make you the example, thats it. you're blacked raw.
stay stealthy brothers.
