Nintendo to pursue over 200.000 Reddit users

[SvennoJ]

Zkuq said:

SvennoJ said:

What did I miss? Is Nintendo suing 200,000 Reddit users for $1 million each? $200 trillion lawsuit?

All I get from the source is that Nintendo is looking for accomplishes to James “Archbox” Williams by requesting info on aliases and other sites he has been active on. Nintendo goes after those profiting from piracy. They're not going after the avg Reddit user or sue people that have downloaded a ROM.

What's with all the hyperbole...

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.

Lol don't talk to me about privacy on Reddit, or the internet in general

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/247637/beware-of-scraping-bots-and-keyword-stuffing-google-neraly-ruined-my-marriage/

Regardless of farming bots, your information is sold to whoever wants to pay for it. Any free service -> you are the product.

Plus it's likely somewhere in the Eula that your data can be shared with authorities.

Here it is

https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy

How We Share Information

To comply with the law. We may share information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, including, but not limited to, meeting national security or law enforcement requirements. To the extent the law allows it, we will attempt to provide you with prior notice before disclosing your information in response to such a request. Our Transparency Report has additional information about how we respond to government requests.

I doubt Nintendo wants to sift through all that themselves. That's police work.