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Re:How anti-cheats catch cheaters using memory heuristics by TheAdamAndChe on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @09:46AM (#21991859)
Is this legal? It's obviously against TOS, but I don't think breaking a TOS is illegal..
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Re:How anti-cheats catch cheaters using memory heuristics by kemonocode on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:02PM (#21993280)
You could make a case that making a cheat is copyright infringement as Blizzard did [0] so yes, it can be illegal.

[0] https://torrentfreak.com/blizzard-sues-overwatch-cheat-maker...

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Re:How anti-cheats catch cheaters using memory heuristics by JamesBarney on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:36PM (#21993704)
It seems like blizzard is really stretching and the cases that already went to court they lost.

Is making an overlay a derivative work?

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