{"id":65679,"date":"2025-10-07T22:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/65679\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T22:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T22:41:09","slug":"fortnite-maker-files-fraud-copyright-suit-over-bot-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/65679\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite Maker Files Fraud, Copyright Suit Over Bot Manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games Inc. filed a federal lawsuit accusing a pair of players of using bots to fraudulently earn tens of thousands of dollars by simulating player engagement in games created by the users.<\/p>\n<p>Idris Nahdi and Ayob Nasser created games within Fortnite\u2014known as Islands\u2014and used bots to artificially increase engagement to earn money in the game, Epic Games\u2019 complaint in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan said. Epic Games brought contract and copyright claims against the Dearborn, Michigan residents, and also accused Nahdi of fraudulent inducement.<\/p>\n<p>The copyright claims stemmed from termination of the pair\u2019s right &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Epic Games Inc. filed a federal lawsuit accusing a pair of players of using bots to fraudulently earn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2028,61,60,44725,80],"class_list":["post-65679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-copyright-infringement","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-software-copyrights","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}