Epic Games Inc. has settled its lawsuit against a 14-year-old boy who created cheat programs for Fortnite.

The lawsuit was originally filed in North Carolina federal court and alleged that Joseph Sperry, a.k.a. “Spoezy,” made and distributed software that allowed players to cheat in Epic’s free-to-play battle royale game, Fortnite.

“In addition to creating and using the cheats,” reads the court documents, “Defendant promoted, marketed, and sold these cheats to third parties, and actively encouraged and induced these other cheaters to purchase and use the cheats to gain an unfair advantage in Fortnite.”

Although the problem of cheating in Fortnite isn’t nearly as pervasive as in its main rival PUBG, it’s still an issue that Epic needed to address. They did so promptly last October by suing two creators of cheat programs, with one of them turning out to be only 14 years old.

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Epic argued that Spoezy’s cheats were a violation of the game’s terms of service and end-user license agreement, as well as an illegal circumvention of digital protections. The creation of software using Epic’s code also constituted a copyright infringement.

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The defendant's mother actually stepped in arguing that her son couldn’t have violated Fortnite’s ToS or EULA since he’s only 14 and requires parental consent to play the game at all--consent she says she never provided. Okay, that's a reasonable argument to make, but her other argument--that making cheats doesn’t reduce the profits of a free-to-play game--was not so reasonable.

Those arguments could have gone on, but the two sides reached an agreement on Monday that settled the case. For dropping the charges of violation of ToS, EULA, and circumventing digital protections, Spoezy agreed to plead guilty to copyright infringement for making the cheat programs.

No damages were listed on the documents obtained by Torrent Freak, and we’re told that Epic mostly just wanted to discourage cheating and not get a huge financial settlement. Spoezy’s settlement bars him from creating or promoting cheats, and if he violates the agreement he (or more likely, his parents) would be fined $5,000.

Compare that to PUBG, which managed to dump $5.1 million in fines on 15 Chinese hackers, and you can see a certain difference in style.

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