Denuvo asks a US court to let it subpoena Valve, Discord and Reddit to unmask the cracker voices38

In its DMCA case over 26 games, Denuvo wants account data from three platforms to learn who voices38 is. No judge has ruled, and voices38 says everything will carry on as normal.

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Denuvo, the anti-tamper company owned by Irdeto, has asked a federal court in California for permission to subpoena Valve, Discord and Reddit so it can find out who is behind "voices38", the anonymous cracker it is suing. The request, an ex parte application to serve limited discovery before the normal stage of a case, was first reported by TorrentFreak on 6 October. Denuvo says it wants the information "solely to determine Defendant's true identity".

The case so far

Denuvo GmbH filed its complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on 14 September, according to the court docket. It is a DMCA anti-circumvention suit that accuses voices38 of bypassing Denuvo's protection on 26 games, among them Hogwarts Legacy and Black Myth: Wukong. Denuvo does not know whether voices38 is one person or a group, Game Developer reported; the complaint identifies the defendant only by a Discord user ID, a Reddit account and seven Steam profiles.

What Denuvo wants from each platform

From Valve, the application seeks registration details, names and billing addresses for the seven Steam accounts, along with payment methods, transaction histories, IP addresses with timestamps, device identifiers and linked accounts. From Discord it wants the servers the account belongs to and its roles there, and from Reddit all posts and comments by voices38 and the subreddits it belongs to. Denuvo says it approached all three first. According to TorrentFreak, Valve and Reddit both replied that their privacy policies stop them sharing user data without a legal basis, and Discord did not answer.

A declaration from Denuvo's attorney Ryan Morris also says the company traced voices38 transactions on the FixedFloat exchange, in Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana. TorrentFreak notes the declaration does not explain how those transactions were linked to voices38, and Denuvo is not asking to subpoena FixedFloat. Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. will decide whether the subpoenas can go ahead; no ruling had been reported by 11 October. KitGuru's report lists Microsoft among the targets as well, which the other reports do not.

The response

When the suit was filed, voices38 wrote on Reddit: "All is fine. Everything will continue as normal." TorrentFreak said on 6 October that no new releases had appeared since then, but tbreak reported on 8 October that new releases attributed to voices38 had appeared around 7 and 8 October. Another bypass group, DenuvOwO, has reportedly disbanded since the lawsuit was filed.

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