In February, a massive surprise hit the internet when a leaker managed to secure and upload the collector's edition artbook of the upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Over 200 pages of content involving the highly anticipated Breath of the Wild sequel were available to browse, months ahead of the game's scheduled May 12th release date. That same day, Nintendo sent out DMCA takedowns to Discord, where the leak had originated from--specifically, a server called Tears of the Kingdom Official Discord Server, which was very much unofficial.

That wasn't the end of things; Nintendo has gone on to take things to court. On April 7th, Nintendo of America filed for a DMCA subpoena, targeting the artbook leaker. They've narrowed down the account name of the person behind it all, but are seeking a court order that would require Discord to give Nintendo the real name, home address, telephone, and email address of the user.

NOA is requesting the attached proposed subpoena that would order Discord Inc. (“Discord”) to disclose the identity, including the name(s), address(es), telephone number(s), and e-mail addresses(es) of the user Julien#2743, who is responsible for posting infringing content that appeared at the following channel Discord channel Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The purpose for which this subpoena is sought is to obtain the identity of the Discord user Julien#2743, who posted infringing content that appeared on the Infringing Channel.​

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[1B51004]

I'm interested to see how this turns out. Nintendo is in the legal right to go after the leaker (albeit, might not be worth the money spent, oh well) and maybe this could get Discord to reform its rules. I like using discord, but I will be the first to admit that the service has it's problems, big problems.

At the same time, I hope Nintendo DOESN'T find out who this guy is, because being millions of dollars in debt absolutely crushing to a single person.

 

[xdarkx]

LOL once its on the internet its too late. Nintendo is still stuck in the stone age with this kind of stuff

It should be obvious when a big company like NOA going after someone like this. They are trying to make an example out of this leaker.

 

[JuanMena]

Somebody tell Nintendo it was Deez!

 

[Bladexdsl]

they'll be joining kongnutz soon

 

[SamuraiErikku]

Fuck Nintendo for doing this shit and this is why they should of produced more Collector's Editions instead of producing more Standard Edition's of the game. I hope people Pirate that $69.99 Dollar game and give them the finger!

Also fuck most of the employees that work at Nintendo of America, these people are assholes I only encountered one NoA Rep. and she's only one of the good ones that work at Nintendo of America. I also had a bad customer service rep back in March of 2020 he was a real asshole I called them about them taking down one of my Animal Crossing videos on YouTube.

 

[YuseiFD]

I hope to god he put something dissing nintendo, like Soyboy McWahoo, as his name, and the address of some alaskan arby's.

 

[skribbzz]

That was like a month ago or so, who cares? I mean this is Nintendo after all though...
I got it when it first showed up

 

[Morricorne]

Its Nintendo thing. They always do something like this. Sue everything and everybody. Fuck them. I have hope this new Zelda will be leaked a week before release.

 

[r1vver]

hope this new Zelda will be leaked a week before release

Nintendo will just be happy. There will be so many new banned Switches!

 

[SMNFXCN]

i get that this person did a bad thing in the eyes of nintendo but like. i've seen people bootlicking nintendo over this. not surprisingly but damn wtf

 

[DarkCoffe64]

The a at the end of noa is the clue. People there will sue you for absolutely anything lol.

Nintendo of Assholes

Somebody tell Nintendo it was Deez!

...nuts?

 

[B.B.Link]

Fuck Nintendo for doing this shit and this is why they should of produced more Collector's Editions instead of producing more Standard Edition's of the game. I hope people Pirate that $69.99 Dollar game and give them the finger!

Also fuck most of the employees that work at Nintendo of America, these people are assholes I only encountered one NoA Rep. and she's only one of the good ones that work at Nintendo of America. I also had a bad customer service rep back in March of 2020 he was a real asshole I called them about them taking down one of my Animal Crossing videos on YouTube.

 

[PopcornSweetie]

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[Xzi]

Just because Nintendo CAN do this doesn't mean they SHOULD. Stores break street dates for stuff like this all the damn time, it doesn't give corporations the right to bully individuals and potentially bankrupt them for life. A competent lawyer would argue there's no way for Ninty to prove they lost any sales as a result of it, anyway.

 

[Marc_LFD]

Wow, modern Nintendo just keeps disappointing me.

 

[orangy57]

does Discord legally have to disclose this info? pretty sure it's fair game if you sign up to discord with your REAL name but still it'd suck to get sued to oblivion just for leaking a book a few months early. It'd be nice to see discord actually have someone's back in this case but i highly doubt that'll happen

realistically all they'll have though is an email and a username, it'll probably get them nowhere. It'd SUCK if discord is willing to disclose stuff only used for credit card transactions like their name/address though. don't buy nitro folks

 

[The Catboy]

Goddamn, Nintendo, relax for 5 minutes. Seriously, could you imagine if they put this much energy into making finished games or supporting their current games? Maybe Animal Crossing wouldn’t feel abandoned

 

[JFizDaWiz]

[redacted]

 

[regnad]

 

[Bladexdsl]

They need to fire Doug bowser.

only mario can do that