Discord is engaged in a legal battle with Korean game publisher Nexon, which wants information on users it suspects of pirating its content through a DMCA subpoena.
Discord is fighting to keep its users anonymous in a court battle over piracy on the platform, claiming it would violate users’ First Amendment rights to hand over too much of their information. Nexon, which publishes games including MapleStory, alleges that Discord has refused to comply with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act subpoena issued by a federal court in Texas that ordered the platform to disclose user information connected to suspected intellectual property infringement.
Under the DMCA, companies that suspect infringement of their copyright can seek a subpoena from a federal court to get another service provider to give it information on the user suspected of violating its copyright. “Discord is committed to fulfilling its obligations under the law, but acting as your copyright assertion partner is not one of them,” an attorney for Discord wrote to Nexon in a July letter included in Nexon’s recent filing.
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