Again in February, somebody leaked greater than 200 pages of an artwork e-book from the upcoming Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and Nintendo needs to know who: A TorrentFreak (opens in new tab) report says the corporate has filed a DMCA subpoena with Discord, in search of the identification of a consumer who shared the pictures.
The photographs had been solely up briefly earlier than Nintendo despatched its preliminary DMCA takedown request, which Discord responded to very promptly—in simply eight minutes, in line with the report—with a promise to take down the artwork e-book content material. A number of hours later, Nintendo requested that the channel named “Tears of the Kingdom Official Discord Server” even be taken offline as a result of a few of its members had been nonetheless sharing the leaked content material.
Naturally, that was not the tip of it. On April 7, attorneys for Nintendo filed a subpoena in search of the actual identification of Discord consumer Julien#2743, “together with the identify(s), tackle(es), phone quantity(s), and e-mail addresses(es),” for posting the content material on the Discord channel. The submitting says the knowledge shall be used “for the needs of defending the rights granted to NOA [Nintendo of America] beneath the Copyright Act.” For the reason that infringing content material is already gone, that may solely imply that Nintendo is trying to set an instance.
This is not the primary time {that a} recreation firm has referred to as within the attorneys to go after a Discord consumer: Genshin Impression (opens in new tab) writer Cognosphere did the identical factor in December 2022 to seek out out the identification of well-known leaker generally known as Ubatcha. And sadly for Julien#2743, as we famous in that story, Discord is not more likely to battle the request: Flings like this one are largely a formality to make sure that the businesses concerned are assembly their authorized obligations.
