Riot Files Lawsuit Against League Of Legends Cheat Dev

Riot Games has presented cheating software LeagueSharp with a lawsuit as of last week. The program lets League of Legends players earn experience at an impossibly high rate, spot enemies, and boosts accuracy to name but a few. It's no good, very bad, cheaty stuff.

LeagueSharp provides a subscription service in which players can pay $15 to $50 a month to run the software's scripts in their game. Riot claims that the software is guilty of copyright infringement, stating in the filing that LeagueSharp had to reverse engineer League of Legends in order to build their program. The company is none too pleased that LeagueSharp is profiting from their efforts while diminishing the quality of the player experience.

Riot's filing also accuses the makers of LeagueSharp with attacking League of Legends' servers, training players in how to cheat without getting caught, and, perhaps worst of all, doxxing one of Riot's staff members. The lawsuit notes that LeagueSharp, “disseminated personal and non-public information about a Riot employee, threatened that employee, and posted offensive comments on the employee’s social media."

Riot Games had attempted to settle the dispute out of court, but LeagueSharp failed to respond. Now, they're joining both Epic and Blizzard in taking cheat makers to court.

Thanks, Kotaku!