Shanghai Moonton Technology won a defamation lawsuit accusing Mobile Legends of plagiarizing League of Legends from Riot Games. Tencent as the parent of Riot Games, which lost the lawsuit, had to pay a fine of 220 thousand Yuan or Rp. 471 million. This was due to Tencent's actions in spreading false information regarding allegations of the Mobile Legends game for plagiarism. The defamation of the video game giant has also forced them to compensate their competitors.

As the losing side, they also have to clarify. For the content itself, about the slander that they had filed in May 2022.

As previously reported, Riot Games has sued Moonton on charges of plagiarizing some League of Legends content. They asked the competitor to stop the intentional imitation and try to piggyback on the popularity of the game made.

"Moonton's strategy is blatant imitation. When Riot updates the video game, Moonton will copy it. When Riot updates the promotional material for the game, Moonton copies it. And when Riot releases a new trailer, Moonton copies it," said Riot in his lawsuit (9/5) .

However, Moonton sued back, because Riot Games was considered slanderous, defamed and spread false information to the public. As a result, this has a negative impact on the publisher and developer of the Mobile Legends game.

They stated that what Tencent did was hampering business activities, so that the reputation became bad in the eyes of partners. Surprisingly, the defendant did that ahead of the National Mobile Legends competition, namely MPL.

It is alleged that Tencent did that, to destroy the competitive advantage that the plaintiffs had. It didn't stop there, after the decision of the first instance, Riot Games' parent company filed an appeal to the court.

Unfortunately, the court of second instance rejected the defendant's appeal. Then, the end result still supports the initial decision.