Nintendo Ninjas Visit Discord!

Hi everyone! I hope you’re all having a fantastic end to your exam season!

I wanted to quickly highlight an interesting development from Nintendo’s continuous attempts to uncover the identity of the mysterious individual(s) who caused a tremendous leak of Game Freak’s, the developers for the main line series of games for Nintendo’s hit property “Pokemon”, proprietary information that was subsequently spread all over the internet. Fans on the internet at the time were referencing the event as the “Tera Leak”, given the immense amount of internal information that was shared with the public without permission from the company.

As of late, Ninetendo has demonstrated its steadfast commitment towards tracking down the perpetrator of the Teraleak and recently made headlines for filing a request for a subpoena on April 19th in US District Court of the Northern District of California that would force Discord to disclose the names of particular users on the platform in an attempt to identify anyone involved in the “leaking process”, which allegedly originated from a Discord server called “Freak Leak”.

Currently, it remains to be seen whether Nintendo will be successful in its pursuit of these mysterious leakers via Discord but the company’s pursuit of legal action is a strong reminder to leakers in the video game space about the potentially severe consequences of their behaviour.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/nintendo-is-reportedly-taking-legal-action-after-last-years-massive-pokemon-teraleak-which-supposedly-unveiled-legends-z-a-source-code-and-unannounced-gen-10-games/ar-AA1DoC1w
https://www.polygon.com/pokemon/561817/pokemon-teraleak-nintendo-discord-subpoena