Take-Two has decided to go on the offensive. Rockstar Games’ parent company has lodged a series of subpoenas in federal court, pressing Microsoft and Discord for information as it works to identify whoever has spent the week flooding the internet with GTA 6 gameplay footage.
Submitted yesterday, August 20, in the New York Southern District Court, the paperwork invokes the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Its focus is an account going by 'CyberLeek,' said to be the source of the leaks.
What Take-Two is asking for is unusually wide
Rather than narrowing in on the suspect alone, the subpoena seeks identifying details for every user account that belonged to several Discord servers. Not just one account — the entire room.
Take-Two additionally wants Microsoft’s complete internal business and investigative files relating to the company’s own inquiry into ‘CyberLeek,’ plus any GTA, Rockstar or CyberLeek material stored in the OneDrive accounts of those Discord members.
Among the servers listed in the filing is one operated by DarkViperAU — the online alias of Matthew “Matt” Judge, an Australian GTA content creator.
The legal language, in Take-Two’s own words
“The copyrighted material includes but is not limited to audio visual content, artwork, images, dialogue, or other creative elements,” the filing reads. “Take-Two, through its counsel of record, has submitted a sworn declaration confirming that the purpose for which the DMCA subpoena is sought is to obtain the identity of an alleged infringer or infringers, and that such information will only be used for the purpose of protecting Take-Two’s rights.”
The leaker hasn’t stopped
And here’s what turns this from paperwork into a pursuit: the leaks kept coming after the filing.
With yet another gameplay clip surfacing, today, August 21, becomes a fourth straight day of GTA 6 leaks. The latest one features supercar gameplay. As with every clip before it, a memecoin is being promoted on screen — a token that one GTA fan recently linked back to a Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange, a trail that could potentially expose the leaker.
Stamped across the newest video is the watermark: “HIGHER MARKET CAP = MORE LEEKS.”
By that count, six apparent GTA 6 gameplay videos have now leaked this week. Publicly, neither Rockstar nor Take-Two has commented on any of it, though both have been contacted for a statement.
The timing is brutal
It’s all unfolding just seven days ahead of Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look, a Netflix timed exclusive arriving Thursday, August 27. The presentation remains Netflix-only for six hours before expanding to other platforms, YouTube included.
Which leaves Rockstar with a meticulously scheduled reveal on one side, and on the other, someone publishing supercar footage branded with a memecoin ad and effectively daring the publisher to track them down.