The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom leaked and mailed over a week before launch Nintendo is in an uproar, with the company doing copyright takedowns against Discord, Twitch, Twitter and more. Now the game is officially available, but some pirates are still downloading the game illegally and Nintendo is watching.
“Bruh wtf” wrote one such player on the Switch Pirates subreddit. “Did Nintendo figure it out somehow? You know exactly how I did it too, wtf.” The user, named RevolutionaryToe6738, shared a copy of a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice sent to him by Comcast warning of the infringing activity. In particular, it also contained information about it Tears of the Kingdom File the player pirated, from where and how.
“Yes…most torrents for anything are tracked,” one commenter wrote when the thread blew up, referring to the intellectual property watchdog companies trying to record torrent users’ web addresses on behalf of copyright owners. “Can I still play if I just unplug wifi or should I just do what they say and hope they don’t do anything,” RevolutionaryToe6738 wrote back. Tears of the KingdomThe enormous popularity led to this Big lines in front of the shops on the day of publication and has apparently also inspired newcomers to the world of internet piracy. RevolutionaryToe6738 did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It is not clear how many others zelda Pirates have received similar DMCA notices from their ISPs. (File torrenters who receive such warnings generally need not face legal action, although a repeat offender may be banned from their ISP.) Tears of the Kingdom It was pretty easy to buy real copies of, thanks in part to an ongoing one Nintendo Voucher Program and a recent GameStop deal that reduced the price to only $20 for those who trade games in.
Ahead of the release, Nintendo’s attempt to quash leaks led to this overzealous with some deactivation requests, on Twitch channels and social media accounts that only re-shared officially sanctioned thumbnails of the game. Nintendo even hit its breakthrough momentarily zelda Twitter accounts with a takedown notice.
The company wasn’t content with simply deleting leaked and pirated game files from the Internet either. It recently subpoenaed Discord for the personal data of a user involved in the distribution of copies of the Tears of the Kingdom art book and was has been suing ROM sites for years, and win.
Updated 05/16/2023 2:30pm ET: Added additional details on ISP DMCA Complaints.
