The relevant legal concepts are copyright, contract law and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. If I take information from an executable given to me since I bought a game, and make a game cheat based on the information then sell, is this illegal? As a cheat developer, you have to bypass these counter measures, and sometimes these counter measures are present in the executable in the form of packing / obfuscation which just makes it harder to analyze. Most games have an 'anti-cheat' which try to detect people who use cheats and ban them from the game. I've only read some stuff on the DMCA, but I am unsure if this qualifies for it. Reverse engineering involves taking an executable you get when you buy the game, and seeing where the code stores information.īased on this information, you can make a program to access the information you found while reversing, and modify it to give you an advantage.

Most of you probably haven't heard of this, but there are people like me who reverse engineer games, and make software that exploit the games code and memory in order to gain an advantage.īasically, we have to reverse games to know where the game stores different information, like your players health, position, and weapon. I sell game hacks for a living, but wanted to learn more about the laws regarding what I do.

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