{"id":233935,"date":"2017-10-20T08:51:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T06:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=233935"},"modified":"2017-10-20T08:53:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T06:53:33","slug":"epic-games-sues-bitcoin-mining-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/233935-epic-games-sues-bitcoin-mining-cheat.html","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games sues Bitcoin mining &#8220;cheat&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games, publisher of Fortnite, 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&#8217;t very effective.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Epic 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&#8217;s computer,&#8221; 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<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/229665-epic-games-accidentally-added-crossplay-for-playstation-4-and-xbox-one.html\">Epic Games accidentally added crossplay for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games is taking the creators of cheating programs to court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":233943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9691],"class_list":["post-233935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-epic-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233967,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233935\/revisions\/233967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}