Nintendo Switch platform game masterpiece “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” will be released on May 12, and as early as February this year, a large number of game album pictures were leaked on the network, showing a variety of Link’s clothing, other important NPC characters, enemies, props, scenes and other important elements.
How can this serious sneakiness be let go by Nintendo? According to the latest news from foreign media TorrentFreak, legal documents indicate that Nintendo has its eyes on a Discord user and is now trying to obtain his identity.
According to the report, on February 21, Nintendo of America sent a DMCA notice to Discord. The complaint was filed against the Discord channel called “Kingdom Tears Official Discord Server”.
The notice refers to six specific URL links and states that the URLs contain images or links to images “from Nintendo’s copyrighted and unreleased The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Realm special edition video game art book, in violation of Nintendo’s rights.
Just eight minutes after Nintendo sent a takedown notice to Discord, the platform acknowledged the complaint and told Nintendo that the content “will be removed immediately.
Approximately ten hours after the initial removal notice was sent, Nintendo followed up with a request for “immediate review and removal” of the Discord channel, noting that members were still distributing the leaked content using direct messages and links.
Approximately eighteen hours later, Discord stated that it “has alerted the servers about the reported activity. In addition, Nintendo objected to Discord’s use of the word “official” in the server’s name because “the server is not operated or licensed by Nintendo.
On April 4, 2023, attorneys for Nintendo of America filed a petition for a DMCA subpoena in California District Court.
The subpoena would order Discord to disclose the identity of the user, including name, address, phone number, and email address, alleging that “user Julien #2743 posted infringing content that appeared in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Realm on Discord’s channel.”
The follow-up progress, as one of the “strongest legal departments” of Nintendo, for the leak of the act of tracking is really fast and powerful.
