Activision is taking legal action to obtain the real names and identities of makers of cheating software that sells to Call of Duty players. In a filing Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Activision asked for permission to serve the 15 necessary subpoenas in order for Activision to understand the identity of the nameless or aliased ‘unnamed’ defendants in this lawsuit and to secure all necessary subpoenas. The parties are all mentioned in this lawsuit.
Activision proposes to use social media, payment processors, domain name services, Github repositories and Steam to track cheat makers’ names, addresses, email addresses, IP addresses and other identifiable information. Activision said Thursday that the defendants also created accounts and groups designed to ‘mock’ Activision and its lawyers.
The original complaint was filed on January 4. Activision has and will continue to spend significant resources to combat cheating in its games, the complaint said. Despite these efforts, the defendants’ sale and distribution of the cheating software caused Activision’s goodwill and reputation to suffer substantial and irreparable damage and lost significant revenue.