| SvennoJ said: What did I miss? Is Nintendo suing 200,000 Reddit users for $1 million each? $200 trillion lawsuit? |
Nintendo shouldn't get access to what's probably personally identifiable information of 200,000 users just because some of them might be involved in illegal activities. That's a clear overreach in my opinion, because it's likely to violate the privacy of a very large number of innocent users as well. Privacy is valuable too. I skimmed through the filing, and while I'm not sure because it's legal jargon, my impression is that Nintendo has indeed not specified further anywhere which users it wants information about, so the chances are that it's all of them. I'm also not getting the impression that Nintendo is getting the authorities to investigate those users, I'm getting the impression that Nintendo itself wants the data of those users to investigate on its own. I don't think the users signed up for such distribution of data, and I don't think it's at all reasonable either. I think such gross violation of privacy demands a case much more serious than seeking out a small number of accomplishes among all those users.
