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Nintendo sends a cease and desist to insider that has leaked pretty much every E3 2019 announcement
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Nintendo is a very large corporation so they have a huge pool of legal aid available 24/7. It costs them nothing but effort to go after this person and they have everything to gain by maintaining the surprise. They just need the bluff to work for a couple days.
You can believe what you want but I'm not able to prove anything other than the fact this account is trying to play off every leak as their own despite the leaks coming from other sources first. Like the Bandai Namco games. This Sabi Twitter account isn't trust worthy to me in the least. Just my personal take on it and what's happened with many "insiders" over the past few years loving the attention + followers. imo people like this do more harm than good getting blind followers to latch onto whatever they say.
I don't know. Is this twitter person famous or something? Like anyone can confirm someone else's stuff.
I really hoped that they were a legit leaker and not a reposter.
LMAO if this is true.
Don't give away your sources if you wanna get off scot free.
I don't even understand how you would get stuff from every company involved in E3 through legal means.
Also, maybe don't advertise on Twitter well in advance that you're going to spoil the shit out of Nintendo's Direct.
somebody hacked the namco site or the marketing server and gave her the info, so, i assume that similar stuff was done in regards to the other leaks
They have their location on their twitter profile. That likely helps narrow it down and make it easy for a legal firm to find them.
She stole the leaks from here
She just stole everything that guy said 20 hours ago
She just stole everything that guy said 20 hours ago
GAF, not 4chan -- they got my address from my domain registrar where I posted the gif. It was just that gif and a brief summary of the vidoc so I wasn't really worried about it but I got a C&D letter and a call from one of their lawyers. For a 2-3 second gif of what amounts to a commercial
My point is that neither getting a C&D nor acting on it tells you anything about whether they are under NDA. It doesn't matter if it is enforceable or not. Do you want to go to court to defend your right to post BS on the internet? I didn't and I don't know why you would unless you are getting paid for it
As someone who worked for a company much larger than Nintendo and actually saw receipts for lawyers, its not this easy, please, I am not talking from my ass here. I'm not some spring chicken naive to the world. The cost of bluffing one twitter user isn't worth it unless it can materially impact the course of business. No one in the corporate offices in Japan is even noticing this shit. If a retained lawyers office sent an email, however they got that information, it was probably sent by a junior associate doing it on their own.
Be more critical of this shit. AND like I said, I also am willing to see a case where it could be true, but I am being more skeptical when people claim this noise.
EDIT - seeing what sangreal is posting does give me pause to think some associate or lower level lawyer is just bored on a weekend, or that possibly Nintendo lawyers are using bots to find this shit and just auto tagging them via IP address tracking.
Sabi is most likely the most legit leaker in the history of gaming.
But what about that sweet internet clout and 15 minutes of fame?
The leaker didn't mention ghostwire though.
Sabi got that right though
Nintendo and the other companies are investing many millions of dollars to create a hype presentation at a LITERAL TRADE INDUSTRY EVENT where world premiere announcements are currency.
For some random person to leak it sporadically undermines the value of the entire show and is most certainly worth pursuing legal action for.
For some random person to leak it sporadically undermines the value of the entire show and is most certainly worth pursuing legal action for.
Do you honestly think that Nintendo doesn't have their own lawyers that are salaried to work for them?
She posted some of that information before Vergeben. I think both were privy to some of the same info, but she got exact wording correctly on Microsoft's Scarlett video so she knew someone who had access to that video.
That said, I'm skeptical. She'd been promising leaks on Nintendo for a couple days now and suddenly can't deliver? It's suspicious, but who knows.
Yeah. It was all done poorly and each bit on info shared narrowed things down. Flaunting when they would post Nintendo information would have made things easy for Nintendo to track. If anything, they are lucky Bamco, Square, MS, Ubisoft, and the others haven't acted yet.
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No they didn't. Sabi posted a lot of things before that, and also things not included there.
That would be literally any leaker. But they do give hype for people are into leaks such as myself
Either she just reposts leaks from elsewhere or she's a thief
Which would you prefer she ends up being lol
Which would you prefer she ends up being lol
I can guarantee you that those lawyers are not working in the US on a Sunday night. I am willing to cede that it could be due to other means, but we automatically assume this person is telling the truth, I think it is silly, and its just using an easy villain to pick out because hey we can all see NIntendo ninjas and shit, and yeah I can see Nintendo being petty like that, I just find it far fetched.
If this was the case they would have gone after that 4chan leaker well before Sabi.
Right. We hardly see Nintendo send out C&D's and such for majority of leaks, the last time something like that ever happened was when SMD64 leaked everything he had on GAF and on his site which included information about Pokemon Sun and Moon, other games, it even included financial information, etc. He was reckless, got C&D'd, his site was nuked, and he was forced to sign an NDA, and he got his source fired.
It's funny; Vergeben actually "stole" some of the information Sabi posted on Twitter themselves.
Its remarkably easy to find out people's personal information with a few Google searches
Pretty much everything not part of the Nintendo Direct. Sabi has been threatening/bragging that she was going to leak the Direct for the past few days and Nintendo has now apparently shut that down.
