Discord Is Feuding With a Video Game Company That Wants to Unmask Users

Discord, a messaging level that is not precisely notorious for protecting its users’ privacy, has seemingly yet gotten fed up with a South Korean video crippled shaper that’s trying to basal retired alleged copyright infringers connected the level and has for months been shielding immoderate of those accounts’ identities.

In a tribunal filing archetypal reported by TorrentFreak, Nexon Korea Corporation claims that since May Discord has failed to respond to a national court’s subpoena ordering the level to supply accusation capable to place users down allegedly infringing posts. According to Nexon’s filing, Discord’s attorneys person argued successful correspondence betwixt the 2 companies that the subpoena is overbroad and improperly requires Discord to enactment arsenic different company’s copyright enforcer.

Nexon Korea is down video games similar MapleStory, MapleStory2, Sudden Attack, The Kingdom of the Winds, Dungeon & Fighter, Grand Chase, and Elsword. It requested and received the subpoena from a national tribunal successful Texas nether the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

This is not the archetypal clip Nexon has targeted Discord posts with DMCA takedown notices, according to a missive from Discord’s attorneys included successful the Nexon filing. The attorneys wrote that Discord had antecedently responded to an “overly wide and unduly burdensome subpoena” issued successful October 2023 and turned implicit accusation related to 64 of its users.

“We produced that accusation to your steadfast connected June 13, 2024,” Discord’s attorneys, with the Texas instrumentality steadfast Haltom & Doan, wrote successful the letter. “Now, you look to beryllium demanding further accusation for yet much User IDs, which you allege infringe 1 of the aforesaid copyrights you person already asserted. You are attempting to renegotiate a woody that has already been struck and fulfilled. Your actions are improper. Discord is committed to fulfilling its obligations nether the law, but acting arsenic your copyright assertion spouse is not 1 of them.”

In the letter, Discord’s attorneys wrote that they were prepared to record a question asking the tribunal to quash the subpoena, but Nexon claims that Discord hasn’t done truthful successful a timely manner. The crippled shaper has asked the tribunal to bid Discord to comply with the bid and crook implicit identifying accusation astir the “wanted infringer[s].”