Why is this taken so lightly by game publishers?

SteveZee · May 9, 2019, 9:07pm

g0merpile:

SteveZee:

Hacking is a criminal offense, but it may depend on what you do.

Selling software is not hacking. Its not illegal to hack software, or write cheats for it. That’s contract law. You wont do jail time. Reshader is a good example of something that “Modifies the game” in much the same way cheats do.

Breaking denovo DRM to get at the code itself is an offense for sure. However, watching memory, looking for functions, and modifying memory isn’t.

The reason they dont go after hackers is typically because they’d have to go overseas to do so. And that takes lots of time and money to do. Often its not even remotely worth doing because the people who produce hacks are very good at hiding their tracks. That or the country they live in have laws that prevent prosecution from other countries.

No debate about using cheats being lawful or not. Reverse engineering is against TOS. Using cheats is exactly that.

Yes the debate is about writing cheats being lawful or not. REad the OP Post.