Activision takes legal action against Call of Duty: Modern Warfare battle royale Reddit leaker
The Warzone mode has been strongly hinted at, but Activision are cracking down on leaks.
Activision has not confirmed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will be getting a battle royale mode, but there have been plenty of hints and leaks. One, an image of people with guns standing on top of vehicles beneath the words Call of Duty: Warzone, has got Activision particularly riled up—to the point where they've subpoenaed Reddit for details of the responsible for posting it, Torrentfreak reports.
Redditor Assyrian241O posted a link to the picture in a thread called "I found this image online. Not sure what it is. Possibly Battle Royale." They've since deleted the post, along with their . As Eurogamer observed, Activision has also been issuing takedown notices to people who tweet the image, and a YouTube video with footage of the Warzone tutorial posted by TheGamingRevolution has been taken offline.
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As noted by Gizmodo, last year Reddit was subpoenaed by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in an attempt to learn the identity of a former Jehovah’s Witness whose posts they alleged contained work they owned the copyright to. A federal court ruled the poster had a First Amendment right to remain anonymous even in a copyright lawsuit.
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