Activision Wins $14.5 Million Lawsuit Against Call Of Duty Cheat Maker EngineOwning

Back in the distant past of 2022, Activision filed a lawsuit accusing EngineOwning of "trafficking in circumvention devices", "intentional interference with contractual relations", and "unfair competition. I guess that's legalese for selling hacks. EngineOwning sells subscription-based cheat services for several games, including many Call of Duty titles.

Fast forward to 2024 and now Activision has won its suit against EngineOwning, a judgment worth a smooth $14.5 million. EngineOwning has also been ordered to quit it with the cheat software and to turn over control of its website to Activision.

For its part, EngineOwning doesn't seem to be getting out of the software cheats business.

"There has been a lot of false claims regarding the lawsuit against EngineOwning," EngineOwning said in a statement. "All the guys targeted in the lawsuit are inactive and have been for a long time. The project was handed over to a new owner years ago. Some news articles claim that Activision got access to the data of our users. This is completely false and to no surprise those news articles don’t link any kind of source. All relevant documents regarding the lawsuit are publicly available if you want to look it up yourself.

They go on to state that a new "test version" of a new Call of Duty hack and that it is working on a "free lite version" of the Modern Warfare3/Warzone cheats once the paid version is restored.

EngineOwning says that subscriptions will renew once they get past the current anti-cheat measures of Activision, and that is the reason subs are currently frozen, not because of the lawsuit.

Cheaters gonna cheat, I guess.