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

Discord, a messaging platform that’s not exactly notorious for shielding 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 court docket submitting first reported by TorrentFreak, Nexon Korea Company claims that since Might Discord has failed to reply to a federal court docket’s subpoena ordering the platform to supply data adequate to determine customers behind allegedly infringing posts. Based on Nexon’s submitting, Discord’s attorneys have argued in correspondence between the 2 corporations 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 court docket 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 accordance 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 data associated to 64 of its customers.

“We produced that data to your agency on June 13, 2024,” Discord’s attorneys, with the Texas regulation agency Haltom & Doan, wrote within the letter. “Now, you look like demanding extra data for but extra Person IDs, which you allege infringe one of many similar copyrights you’ve gotten 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 regulation, however performing as your copyright assertion companion just isn’t certainly one of them.”

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