Activision seeking legal action against Modern Warfare leaker ActivisionActivision have filed a DMCA subpoena against a Reddit user for leaking information pertaining to Modern Warfare\u2019s anticipated \u2018Warzone\u2019 battle royale mode. Activision, publisher of the Call of Duty franchise, have demanded that Reddit submit the personal details of a user who allegedly posted a leaked image to the site. The leaked image in question related to the rumored forthcoming battle royale mode in Modern Warfare, supposedly called \u2018Warzone.\u2019 Activision have been willing to dish out copyright claims in a bid to keep their battle royale project under wraps. Noted Call of Duty leaker, TheGamingRevolution, fell victim to such a claim after posting footage of players accessing the battle royale\u2019s menus via a glitch. YouTube took swift action and removed the content from its platform in response to the copyright infringement claim, as they are obliged to do. However, on Reddit, a user under the alias \u2018Assyrian2410\u2019 posted content titled: \u201cI found this image online. Not sure what it is. Possibly Battle Royale,\u201d and embedded into the post was an alleged image of Modern Warfare\u2019s currently classified mode. In response to the post, Activision filed a subpoena to Reddit, which orders the platform to share Assyrian2410\u2019s personal information, including their name and IP address. Per a Korean post on Inven, the controversial image in question shows several characters (including the recently added Ghost Operator) standing on top of a burning Chopper, with the words \u201cCall of Duty Warzone\u201d in the backdrop. According to the DMCA subpoena to Reddit, \u201cthe content infringes Activision\u2019s exclusive rights under copyright law. Specifically, it infringes Activision\u2019s rights in its popular video game \u201cCall of Duty: Modern Warfare.\u201d The subpoena itself compels Reddit to provide Activision with the requested information by February 28. However, whether any further action will be taken by the Call of Duty publishers remains unknown. The court request was signed and approved on February 19. The post itself has since been taken down and Assyrian2410 has since deleted their account on Reddit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Activision seeking legal action against Modern Warfare leaker ActivisionActivision have filed a DMCA subpoena against a Reddit user for leaking information pertaining to Modern Warfare\u2019s anticipated \u2018Warzone\u2019 battle royale mode. Activision, publisher of the Call of Duty franchise, have demanded that Reddit submit the personal details of a user who allegedly posted a leaked image […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}