Rockstar Games and their parent company Take-Two Interactive are taking drastic action against the creators of cheats for GTA 5 Online. Several players, who are regarded as the alleged creators and distributors of the popular cheat “Infamous”, were visited by authorities.
What is “Infamous”? Infamous is a cheat software for GTA 5 Online. Players who purchased this cheat for about €35 gained access to a menu that allowed them to generate unlimited amounts of money, weapons, ammo, vehicles, and other items.
Players were also able to teleport at will or spontaneously explode other players using Infamous. Features that the creators of the cheat promoted in trailers:
What happened? In April 2018, threads appeared on Reddit and various mod forums stating that the menu of Infamous suddenly stopped working. Players were outraged because they had paid money for the cheat and the sellers had not issued a statement. The Discord server for Infamous was also gone. Nobody knew what was going on.
It turned out that Rockstar and Take-Two were taking action against the creators of the cheat and had the website and the associated server taken offline. When the cheat was patched again, Rockstar and Take-Two decided to take the matter to court.
In Australia, the companies obtained a court order to search the homes and cars of the suspects for evidence of cheating activity. All files associated with the Infamous software found and secured were then deleted.
What was the penalty? The creators of the cheat have been prohibited from producing new cheating software or releasing updates for existing cheats. Otherwise, they face imprisonment. The webpages through which Infamous was distributed remain offline.
Moreover, the accounts of the convicted individuals were frozen. This included PayPal accounts and accounts with cryptocurrency. In total, the Infamous creators managed to bring in nearly €180,000 from the sale of the cheat. They can now only withdraw the money for basic living expenses.
Companies’ Actions Against Cheaters Become More Drastic
Cases of lawsuits against cheaters are increasing: This is not the first time that Rockstar and Take-Two have taken legal action against manufacturers of mods and cheats and they are not the only ones. Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite, has also employed heavy fire multiple times to combat cheating software.
Just last week, two YouTubers, Golden Modz and Excentric, received a lawsuit from Epic. They promoted cheats for Fortnite on their YouTube channel and referred to them as “magic”. Even a 14-year-old has been targeted by Epic.
Clearly, the companies want to set an example regarding what happens when the creators of cheats for their games become too well-known.
However, one can earn a lot of money in GTA V Online without cheating:
This way, you can easily make 300,000 GTA$ or more in GTA 5 Online
