Don't mess with League of Legendsif you aren't prepared to pay the (really expensive) consequences.
League of Legendscreators Riot Games won a lawsuit against the makers of a cheating and Watch Actresses' Survival Skills Onlinehacking service called LeagueSharp, earning Riot $10 million. On top of the steep penalty, the creators of LeagueSharp received a court-ordered ban from playing League of Legendsand any other future Riot games as well as an order to hand over their LeagueSharp-affiliated websites to Riot.
SEE ALSO: 'League of Legends' is heading to the Big Ten Network as a college esportLeagueSharp's product violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by getting around Riot Games' anti-cheating software to allow users to execute code scripts to alter the game, whether to trigger abilities at inhuman speed, level up Leaguecharacters more quickly or create bot accounts.
When Riot originally filed the suit in August 2016, the developer alleged that LeagueSharp's creators attacked servers and that, when Riot confronted LeagueSharp, LeagueSharp leaked private information about a Riot employee.
League of Legendshackers and cheaters using LeagueSharp paid $15 to $50 a month to use the service, ruining the integrity of the competitive online game.
The lawsuit was settled against three of LeagueSharp's German creators and their alleged shell company based in Peru.
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