Pokemon Company Sues Fans Over Leaks

except its not on them for posting it early, i would think the one to be sued would be the one who sold it to them

What I find ridiculous is that they're wanting to get private information and all that... because they wanted to manipulate a bunch of the fans into buzzing and hyping up a game (which acts as free advertising in their eyes). And there could be an alternate explanation for possible low sales. Maybe Gigantimax Pokemon wasn't the hit they'd thought it'd be. Regardless, the optics are pretty bad- three random people in some server, one from Milwaukee, versus a multi-million dollar juggernaut trying to use fans excited for a new game to squeeze more money out of people. It reminds me of the process of review embargoes. It has the effect of kneecapping negative reviews, so more people will spend their money on a game or film. Either way, it's manipulative.

"Leaks and spoilers ruin everything!" Imagine if Blizzard sued for every data mining leak.

Gamefreak: “We’ve already got a bunch of controversy surrounding Sword & Shield so fuck it LET’S ADD MORE!”

why do the episodes alway come out on youtube way before here?

Ironically, this lawsuit has probably spread the news of this stuff to a much greater audience and therefore caused more damage than the original leak... that suggest that they need to sue themselves rather more heavily. Given that these people are also probably not the originators of the leak so... gonna be difficult to pin it on them for any real damage at all, no breach of contract or NDA so... as litigious as the Pokemon company is I really feel they are taking the piss here and it will be hard to justify winning to their fans and people in general... which will cause more damage to the company in damaging their reputation... so I really don't see how their legal department can justify all this damage to the company itself... they NEED new lawyers before they shoot themselves to pieces.