Marvel Calls for Reddit Expose The Redditors Behind the Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Script Leak

Marvel’s newest entry to its superhero empire, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, opened last month to mixed reviews from each critics and diehard MCU followers alike. However a polarizing reception is the least of Marvel’s worries surrounding the movie because the studio tries to pin down the scoundrels that leaked the film’s script on Reddit. 

As detailed by TorrentFreak, Marvel will not be joyful concerning the leaked script, which was posted in January—a month earlier than the movie’s launch—on the subreddit r/MarvelStudiosSpoilers. Final Friday, Marvel’s finance affiliate MVL Movie Finance submitted a DMCA subpoena software in United States District for the Northern District of California that calls for Reddit unmask the leakers. 

MVL is particularly requesting all data comparable to the person MSSmods together with any person concerned in posting any copyrighted content material between January 15 and February 15 of this 12 months. Within the software, MVL factors out that Marvel’s guardian firm Disney filed a copyright takedown of the leak on January 21, shortly after it was posted to the subreddit. The script in query is definitely a 63-page-long transcript of dialogue from the film, not the film’s precise script.

MSSmods printed detailed dialogue exchanges from the movie in a post titled “[TFTMQ] Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Detailed Dialog.” The thread at present states that the unique poster was the one who deleted it, however an archive of the thread reveals that the script was uploaded to Google Docs because of the sheer measurement of the doc, for the reason that subreddit has a 40,000 character restrict. As of writing this text, MSSmods hasn’t posted since March 10, the day the applying was filed by MVL.

Talking of Google Docs, MVL additionally filed a subpoena software for Google, for the reason that leaked script was posted to one of many firm’s platforms. As TorrentFreak factors out, it is a wrinkle in MVL’s case in opposition to Reddit, for the reason that offending content material wasn’t really posted to Reddit—a hyperlink to it was posted on Reddit. Prefer it’s software relating to Reddit, MVL can be requesting the identities of anybody who posted the leaked script.

MVL, Google, and Reddit didn’t instantly return Gizmodo’s request for remark.