For years, Take Two Interactivewhich is therefore the parent company of Rockstar Games, be careful to protect its little hen that lays the golden eggs, we are obviously talking about Grand Theft Auto 5. Mods, RP servers, cheats, some do not hesitate to monetize the star company , and Christopher Anderson wanted to exploit the weakness of certain players. Unfortunately for him He got caught and got a hefty fine…
This player will be fined €81,000
But then why such a penalty for such a sum? Good Christopher Anderson is not a player like the others. No, he’s not content just to annoy the world in GTA 5’s online mode, no no, he goes much further because he is a developer. In fact, the latter created cheat software that has been known to GTA players ever since has the head of none other than Infamous.
In 2018, the latter became very popular among GTA 5 players, and Take-Two understandably wanted to attack evil and an investigation took place. As a result, the name Christopher Anderson came up several times, and then his house was searched, which did not surprise investigators!
Hid in his home in Australia a real utensil of Pro with several laptops, iPad, iPhone, with obviously in the latter, several data of code elements of GTA 5. In addition to confiscating his equipment, the latter has seen his PayPal Since his account was closed, he demanded fees for the Infamous software, of course (well, you didn’t think you could cheat in GTA Online without having to pay for it?).
Of course, after careful consideration, Christopher Anderson was found guilty and convicted of copyright infringement against Take-Two, after an agreement with the parent company to a fine of 130,000 Australian dollars or around 81,000 euros (via TorrentFreak).
A story that repeats itself?
Unfortunately, this is not the first time that Take-Two has been confronted with scammers/developers/hackers… Lately Rockstar Games’ next great work has actually been the victim of the biggest leak in the history of the game’s video with no less than 90 images and videos of GTA 6 landed in the wild with the bonus of GTA 5 source code.
As of this writing, the suspected hacker is believed to be behind bars in London, but we still don’t know his true identity or what he faces for revealing all this information. But one thing is for sure, he is risking a lot.