Discord Is Feuding With a Video Recreation Firm That Needs to Unmask Customers

Discord, a messaging platform that’s not exactly notorious for safeguarding its users’ privacy, has apparently lastly gotten fed up with a South Korean online game maker that’s attempting to root out alleged copyright infringers on the platform and has for months been shielding a few of these accounts’ identities.

In a courtroom submitting first reported by TorrentFreak, Nexon Korea Company claims that since Could Discord has failed to answer a federal courtroom’s subpoena ordering the platform to offer info adequate to establish customers behind allegedly infringing posts. In accordance with Nexon’s submitting, Discord’s attorneys have argued in correspondence between the 2 firms that the subpoena is overbroad and improperly requires Discord to behave as one other firm’s copyright enforcer.

Nexon Korea is behind video video games like MapleStory, MapleStory2, Sudden Assault, The Kingdom of the Winds, Dungeon & Fighter, Grand Chase, and Elsword. It requested and obtained the subpoena from a federal courtroom in Texas underneath the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

This isn’t the primary time Nexon has focused Discord posts with DMCA takedown notices, in line with a letter from Discord’s attorneys included within the Nexon submitting. The attorneys wrote that Discord had beforehand responded to an “overly broad and unduly burdensome subpoena” issued in October 2023 and turned over info associated to 64 of its customers.

“We produced that info to your agency on June 13, 2024,” Discord’s attorneys, with the Texas legislation agency Haltom & Doan, wrote within the letter. “Now, you look like demanding further info for but extra Person IDs, which you allege infringe one of many identical copyrights you’ve got already asserted. You are trying to renegotiate a deal that has already been struck and fulfilled. Your actions are improper. Discord is dedicated to fulfilling its obligations underneath the legislation, however performing as your copyright assertion accomplice is just not one in every of them.”

Within the letter, Discord’s attorneys wrote that they had been ready to file a movement asking the courtroom to quash the subpoena, however Nexon claims that Discord hasn’t achieved so in a well timed method. The sport maker has requested the courtroom to order Discord to adjust to the order and switch over figuring out details about the “needed infringer[s].”