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Anonymous ID: 89988d Dec. 15, 2019, 2:04 a.m. No.7512859   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2917 >>3176 >>3216 >>3388

The Pokemon Company filed a complaint against 3 unknown users of Discord, looking for identities of the respective logins. Shortly thereafter, and around the release of the IG report, Discord went down.

 

The law firm is Perkins Coie. Right, the organization who worked for the Clinton campaign and paid Fusion GPS for the dirty Dossier.

 

  • 11/22/2019 Complaint filed, along with request for expedited discovery (in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle)

 

  • 11/27/2019 Case randomly reassigned from Judge John C Coughenour to Judge Marsha J. Pechman

 

  • 12/07/2019 Google storage services experience interruption, causing major API latency issues for Discord

 

  • 12/09/2019 IG report released

 

  • 12/10/2019 Court grants Perkins Coie their motion for expedited discovery

 

  • 12/10/2019 Discord's daily incident report says there were no reported issues that day. However, the API response time graph plainly shows latency issues - the day after the IG report was released.

 

Perkins Coie claims the leaking of ‘Sword and Shield’ secrets caused financial harm, and their client seeks to hold the unknown defendants (a few Discord users) accountable. Their basis of their claim is the economic value of secret information "not being generally known or readily ascertainable," meaning info was leaked before the intended release, and it negatively impacted the value.

 

To demonstrate the value of info "not readily ascertainable," they cite an example of a 'partner' who released a YouTube video previewing Sword and Shield, resulting in 4.2 million views. However, this partner was the developer, and they didn't release the video. Nintendo released it, and their audience is already immense with 6.2 million subscribers. ''Perkins Coie failed at demonstrating the value of secret info.''

 

Even worse for their case, there was no financial harm. The game sold more than six million units worldwide. In the US, it achieved the highest launch month sales in Pokemon franchise history. They seem to be doing fine even though someone uploaded a few pages of a strategy guide.

 

Right, I almost forgot - this case is about a strategy guide. They insist passing around foreknowledge of upcoming game features reduces its value by reducing "excitement and engagement" before the game's release. If anything, these Discord users promoted excitement and engagement, because the game broke sales records. ''The bottom line is that the bottom line proves their argument wrong.''

 

The basis for the subpoenas are flawed, and the whole thing is a farce. It smells like a potential cover for other Perkins Coie clients getting access to way more information than subpoenaed, while the major Google 'incident' was happening on 12/7.

 

Perkins Coie also has a strong relationship with Google because Google has been a client.

They both profited from the relationship.

 

Links and other references

 

https://status.discordapp.com/

 

Legal Representation on the Pokemon case

  • Holly M. Simpkins

  • Lauren W. Staniar

  • Jacob P. Dini

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16508004/the-pokemon-company-international-inc-v-does-1-3/

https://archive.is/pbSa5

 

There also seems to be a connection between Perkins and Pokemon. A partner at Perkins and a Sr. Manager at Pokemon are on the board of directors for Seattle Shakespeare, an organization for theater performances. That seems appropriate for a law firm full of scammers.

 

Seattle Shakespeare BD of directors

  • Lynne Graybeal, Partner, Perkins Coie

  • Amy Levenson. Sr. Manager of Global Publishing, The Pokémon Company

https://www.seattleshakespeare.org/about-us/

https://archive.is/Haju2