Sony Sending DMCAs To People Who Played The Marvel’s Wolverine Leak

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Sony is taking legal action against the people who downloaded the Marvel’s Wolverine build.

As shared on Twitter by TigerCA123, Sony is now sending out DMCA strikes against anyone who is playing the build.

For those who are not in the know, this early version of Marvel’s Wolverine leaked as part of the ransomware leak Rhysida perpetrated vs developer Insomniac. We won’t get into any of the actual leaked information here, but if you need to know more, you can read about it here.

We are now discussing the consequences of the leaks, and to do that we do have to explain how the build got out into the wild. Rhysida didn’t get paid the ransom, so they shared a link on their servers to allow anyone interested to download the ransomed data. Of course, being hackers themselves, they covered up their tracks so that authorities would not be able to track down where Rhysida is located, and for that matter, who downloaded that data, including the build.

But Rhysida also didn’t warn those potential downloaders about the consequences of taking and using those files. As it turns out, the build of Marvel’s Wolverine connects back to Insomniac’s servers whenever it is played. While Insomniac wasn’t able to protect these files, they remembered to place other safeguards on it.

So what’s happening here is the people who played the build for themselves unwittingly shared their location and other data to Insomniac. Sony has then been notifying those people that playing the build violates DMCA law regarding copyright.

As to whether this could lead to real lawsuits and/or arrests for the people who played this build, it isn’t clear. To be clear; Sony and Insomniac are well enabled by DMCA to go after those people if they wish. But they could