Nintendo of America has requested a summons for the online community platform, since he tries to reveal the identity of the person behind Pokémon ‘Teraleak’ of October 2024.
That is according to a legal presentation obtained by Polygon, which describes Nintendo’s efforts to know who the filter was. The citation request quotes Discord User Gamefreakout, who supposedly published “unpublished confidential materials for the public” on a server called Freakleak.
The application was submitted to the San Francisco District Court on April 18, 2025, with the Nintendo Legal Team in Mitchell Silberberg and KnuPP LLP presenting the citation under the copyright law of the Digital Millennium.
An accompanying statement by lawyer James D. Berkley explains that the citation “would order” discord to reveal identity, name, address, telephone number and Gamefreakout email address.
Last October, Freak game developer confirmed that staff data for more than 2,000 current and previous employees had been violated in August 2024. This was shortly before assets and information related to the Pokémon series were widely filtered on social networks.
The ‘Teraleak’ covered a lot of information on past, present and future games in the Pokémon series, including the source code for the DS Pokémon Heartgold and Soulsilver Games.
“The content violates NOA’s exclusive rights under the copyright law,” says the request. “Specifically, it violates Noa’s rights in the work of art protected by copyright, the characters and other materials related to the famous Pokémon franchise, which includes, among others, video games developed in relation to the Pokémon franchise, such as the legends of Pokémon Pokémon: Arceus.”
Nintendo’s application also includes an exhibition of a partially written dispute screenshot that includes user messages in question.
