X Must Reveal Identities of Users Posting Unreleased Video Games

X Corp. will have to reveal the true identities behind four user accounts that allegedly posted unreleased copyrighted art from the action role-playing video game Genshin Impact.

Magistrate Judge Peter H. Kang at the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday denied X’s motion to quash a subpoena seeking the identities from Cognosphere Pte. Ltd., a global video game publishing company behind Genshin Impact.

Kang found that X’s objections to the subpoena on First Amendment grounds didn’t overcome the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s requirement that internet platforms turn over the identities of alleged infringes when subpoenaed ...