Patent for cheats
Why won't companies like EA and Activision actually develop cheats and patent them?
That way doing anything similar or identical would be patent infringement and can be used in a court of law, other than creative content.
So once they have developed and patented cheats, no one can use them if they do not sell them.
What do you think?
EDIT: my apologies, the term patent is quite misleading. What I meant was more on the lines of Copyright (possibly both copyright and patent).
@Daze623
The reason to have a copyrighted/patent on a cheat is to have the legal grounds to keep it off the market. As the owner of it you control distribution.
Sure people can "counterfeit it". But that would lead to great troubles.
it would result in increased prices for cheats, excluding a large portion of cheaters who may have to think about before cheating.
As a consequence cheat makers would be less incentivized to join in the market, pushing prices even higher.
Only players who can afford to spend a lot of money on cheats would be left along with few providers.
All in all it would make the issue of cheating less relevant/common, and easier to fight.
Also, and this is a whole different point or strategy, if EA would have their own cheat developing department, they would in fact be a step ahead of cheaters, by being proactive, instead of reactive. And in so doing updating their anti cheat engine before cheats are independently developed and sold.
And what I mean here is, If EA actively works towards developing each and every way an aimbot can be written, then they could patch it before someone else finds how to build that specific aimbot. (same for other cheats).
