Nintendo to pursue over 200.000 Reddit users

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Zkuq said:

curl-6 said:

If you're on Reddit, or Facebook, or any of those sites, your info's already out there. I mean yeah, it'd be nice if we could keep our details private online, but that's not the world we live in. I doubt anything Nintendo could expose in this investigation isn't already available for any corporation or government that wants to know.

Well, it's a good thing I'm not on Reddit or Facebook, and do you want to know why? Hint: It's precisely because of what I've been preaching here. WhatsApp? Nope. Avoiding Disqus has been more bothersome, but I'm done that too for exactly the same reason. Just recently, I got VR equipment, and guess what criteria I used to exclude some pretty neat options? Yeah, privacy. Having a Google account is my greatest privacy issue, but it's a fairly controlled situation in many ways. Either way, I probably get more or less what I'm expecting, which would 100 % not be the case with this Reddit case. This is just disproportional, but it's what well in line with what Nintendo often (compared to many other similar companies) does: tight control, often using legal means. These days, I appreciate how Nintendo handles many things, but this is not such a thing.

I mean, what would be a proportional response? Nintendo depend on their IP for their very survival, as a result they're obviously going to defend them rigorously. Any info they can glean from this is most likely already out there, I don't see the harm.