While the copyright infringement lawsuit is still pending, the non-copyright-related aspects of the case were referred to arbitration. In the recent arbitration proceedings, Judge Ronald Cox found AimJunkies and “Destiny 2 Hacks” developer James May guilty of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This was based on May’s testimony that he had connected reverse engineering tools to the game to create cheats and had circumvented bans imposed by Bungie.
Since AimJunkies sold and profited from May’s creation, the judge held the company liable. Cox also found AimJunkies and its parent company Phoenix Digital Group liable for selling not just game cheats, but also the loader used to inject cheats into games. The evidence presented showed that AimJunkies had sold over 1,000 copies of the cheats and over 1,000 copies of the cheat loader.
