{"id":55466,"date":"2018-10-16T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/328757"},"modified":"2018-10-16T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T21:16:00","slug":"gta-v-cheaters-assets-frozen-following-australian-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/16\/gta-v-cheaters-assets-frozen-following-australian-court-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA V cheaters&#8217; assets frozen following Australian court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rockstar\u00a0Games and its parent company Take-Two Interactive are cracking down on alleged <em>Grant Theft Auto V\u00a0<\/em>cheaters after an Australian federal court\u00a0granted search and seizure orders against players believed to be connected to the cheating software &#8220;Infamous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Infamous&#8221; cheat allows players to access restricted features of\u00a0<em>GTA V,\u00a0<\/em>including manipulating the game&#8217;s environment and virtual currency for their own benefit and generating virtual currency for themselves and other players.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most notably,\u00a0the federal court of Australia has approved\u00a0several broad enforcement actions barring defendants from any cheating related activity, and leave them subject to\u00a0a search and assets freezing order.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the accusations in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/gta-cheat-developers-have-homes-searched-and-assets-frozen-181015\/\">legal complaint reported by TorrentFreak<\/a>\u00a0are issued against\u00a0Christopher Anderson, Cycus Lesser, Sfinktah, Koroush Anderson, and Koroush Jeddian.<\/p>\n<p>The freeze\u00a0order prevents\u00a0the defendants from taking out more money than needed for regular expenses, which includes\u00a0any cryptocurrency and other digital currency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It seems likely\u00a0that Rockstar\u00a0and Take-Two will attempt to claim copyright infringement-related damages, and the freeze\u00a0order ensures that the money isn\u2019t spent beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the federal court also allowed for\u00a0a search party to enter the buildings and search, copy, or remove relevant evidence including any computer, electronic storage device, or documents related to \u201cInfamous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/gta-v-cheaters-assets-frozen-following-australian-court-ruling.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The federal court orders <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/images\/gtaorders-1.pdf\">can be seen here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockstar\u00a0Games and its parent company Take-Two Interactive are cracking down on alleged Grant Theft Auto V\u00a0cheaters after an Australian federal court\u00a0granted search and seizure orders against players believed to be connected to the cheating software &#8220;Infamous.&#8221; The &#8220;Infamous&#8221; cheat allows players to access restricted features of\u00a0GTA V,\u00a0including manipulating the game&#8217;s environment and virtual currency for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}