Genshin Impact Developer Subpoenas Twitter to Uncover Leaker Identities
Genshin Impact creator miHoYo has officially subpoenaed Twitter in an attempt to discover the identities of three prevalent leakers.
As spotted by Axios, the subpoenas were issued on miHoYo’s behalf by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and targeted the individuals behind the Twitter accounts XWides, Merlin Impact and Genshin World.
The legal documents demand that Twitter hand over a range of information including the telephone numbers, emails, and names of the leakers, along with their IP and real world addresses.
In other video game legal drama, MiHoYo, makers of Genshin Impact, got a California court to subpoena Twitter to reveal the identities of people behind three Genshin Impact accounts that tweet leaksComments from MiHoYo and one of the leakers here: https://t.co/DWvrVaa8vx pic.twitter.com/fPFJdb47Bv
Earlier this month miHoYo’s Cognosphere division requested that Twitter delete posts from each of the above accounts on the grounds that the content infringed its copyright. However, according to Axios the tweets were never taken down, and Twitter did not immediately return the outlet’s request to comment on the new subpoenas.
Leaks have become a commonplace annoyance in the video game industry, and miHoYo’s litigious move doesn’t represent the first time that a developer or publisher has resorted to legal action in an attempt to stamp down hard on digital spoiler farmers.
Back in 2019 the Pokemon Company sought to subpoena Discord and 4Chan to identify individuals responsible for leaking information on Pokemon Sword and Shield, eventually forcing two individuals to pay $150,000 each in damages.
Epic Games similarly took legal action against a UX tester responsible for leaking details on
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