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A massive The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom artbook leaked in February, and Nintendo hasn’t forgotten. The Switch maker is currently trying to subpoena Discord, where images from the artbook first started making the rounds, to force the social media platform to disclose the identity of one of the users alleged to be behind the leak.

The subpoena, first reported by TorrentFreak, was filed in the Northern District Court of California on April 4, and attempts to force Discord to “disclose the identity, including the name(s), address(es), telephone number(s), and e-mail addresses(es) of the user Julien#2743, who is responsible for posting infringing content,” that appeared in a fan-run Discord server called the “Tears of the Kingdom Official Discord Server.” (Nintendo does not run any “official” Discord servers for Tears of the Kingdom or any other games.)

Nintendo and Discord did not respond to requests for comment.

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If that stuff only could have been available to someone who works at Nintendo, they fucked up big time. If someone hacked into their shit, then yeah, they’re fucked.
 
Grungie said:
If that stuff only could have been available to someone who works at Nintendo, they fucked up big time. If someone hacked into their shit, then yeah, they’re fucked.
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Imagine if it hadn't been hacked knowing Nintendo should be the ones expected to beef up their computer security when stuff like this happens.
 
Burnsy said:
Fuck nintento. Literal witch hunt over an art book.
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You'd be surprised at how many places have clauses over leaking confidential information. So if you sign a contract to work for a company, and you leak anything considered confidential information (regardless of how petty you think it is), then your employer can, and will fire your ass on top of having legal actions. Crying "it's just a book" won't save you. So if an employee at Nintendo was the one who leaked it, they're fucked.

If someone hacked into their systems and that's how the information was aquired, then that's a different legal can of worms.
 
Grungie said:
You'd be surprised at how many places have clauses over leaking confidential information. So if you sign a contract to work for a company, and you leak anything considered confidential information (regardless of how petty you think it is), then your employer can, and will fire your ass on top of having legal actions. Crying "it's just a book" won't save you. So if an employee at Nintendo was the one who leaked it, they're fucked.

If someone hacked into their systems and that's how the information was aquired, then that's a different legal can of worms.
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And what right does nintendo have to demand discord to give up their confidential data? Who they they think they are the FBI?
What if Julien#2743 isn't even the leaker and just the first one to post it online? He won't be bound by any NDA and he's likely going to get exposed, get harassed when all his personal details come out into the open from zelda fans mad about the leak? Nintendo won't care about that of course. Witch hunt is right.
 
Burnsy said:
And what right does nintendo have to demand discord to give up their confidential data? Who they they think they are the FBI?
What if Julien#2743 isn't even the leaker and just the first one to post it online? He won't be bound by any NDA and he's likely going to get exposed, get harassed when all his personal details come out into the open from zelda fans mad about the leak? Nintendo won't care about that of course. Witch hunt is right.
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Businesses can issue subpoenas to other buisinesses in regards to records for legal matters, being the leaked confidential information in this case. It's not that uncommon a practice. Discord just has to contact an attorney and it gets taken care of through the legal system for a judge to either say "fuck you Nintendo" or "fuck you Discord, give up them docs".

So they do have the rights to actually do this. They have a written legal contract with their employees (which is probably about leaking trade secrets, or however they have it categorized as), it's protected under the law.

Even if they find out if the guy either didn't hack their stuff (or works at Nintendo), then Nintendo will have to issue another subpoena on this guy to provide where he got it from if he says his lips are sealed. He wouldn't get a "whoops, my bad, we got the wrong guy", then send him home. He still leaked the information, and Nintendo can still issue legal action on him. There's legal ramifications of leaking this type of information, even if you just happened to come across it. It might not be as bad as what'll happen to the guy who initially leaked it, but something will still happen to him.
 
Honestly a leak isn't new to Nintendo from actual games to an art book, even though it is an art book they have every right to find out who did it because some legal agreement was breached or and obviously they are getting hacked and need to figure out who is behind it.
 
I wonder if Nintendo would ever find the person who leaked the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom art book in 2023.
 
So it's a gamestop employee. The leaker.
 
Ah right. 2 different leakers.
 
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