{"id":121521,"date":"2017-10-20T11:31:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T09:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121521"},"modified":"2017-10-20T11:33:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T09:33:20","slug":"epic-games-sues-maker-of-bitcoin-mining-fortnite-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/121521-epic-games-sues-maker-of-bitcoin-mining-fortnite-cheat","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games sues maker of Bitcoin mining Fortnite &#8220;cheat&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games, publisher of Fortnite: Battle Royale, is taking the creators of cheating programs to court for copyright infringement, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/epic-games-sues-man-over-bitcoin-mining-fortnite-cheat-171019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TorrentFreak<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the alleged cheaters is Russian Mr Yakovenko, who promoted his cheat via YouTube videos. However, his program wasn\u2019t very effective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEpic downloaded the purported cheat from the links provided in Yakovenko\u2019s YouTube videos. While the cheat does not appear to be a functional Fortnite cheat, it functions as a Bitcoin miner that infects the user\u2019s computer,\u201d said Epic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Epic had the videos removed with takedown notices and\u00a0is pursuing damages with its copyright claim.<\/p>\n<p>Epic is also charging cheaters with trademark infringement, unfair competition, and breach of contract.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/120748-fortnite-gets-ps4-xbox-one-crossplay-due-to-configuration-issue.html\">Fortnite gets PS4-Xbox One crossplay due to configuration issue<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games, publisher of Fortnite: Battle Royale, is taking the creators of cheating programs to court for copyright infringement, reported\u00a0TorrentFreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":121523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[1415,1563,25235],"class_list":["post-121521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-epic-games","tag-fortnite","tag-fortnite-battle-royale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}