Subpoenas apparently mean nothing to the leaker. That much has become obvious.
Today, August 22, two additional GTA 6 gameplay clips appeared, uploaded by the individual or crew going by ‘CyberLeek.’ Supercar gameplay and an armed robbery feature in the first. The second shows strip club footage, packaged with a joke: a piece of a cutscene where a character mentions needing to take “a leak.”
Subtle.
It marks the week’s second cutscene to leak out, and that detail is what should be keeping Rockstar up at night. The presence of cutscenes points to the leaker having access to a real build of the game, and worries are mounting that story spoilers may follow.
Eight videos in one week, and every one comes with a sales pitch
With these two, the weekly tally hits eight. Just like the six that preceded them, they promote the ‘CyberLeek’ memecoin, part of an operation that is widely considered to be a crypto scheme.
The leaks, then, aren’t a fan effort or chaos for chaos’s sake. This is advertising.
Take-Two went to federal court
Take-Two filed Digital Millennium Copyright Act subpoenas in federal court on August 20, targeting information held by Microsoft and Discord. What the publisher wants are identifying details attached to user accounts belonging to several Discord servers, one of them linked to Australian GTA content creator Matthew “Matt” Judge, who is better known as DarkViperAU. Judge has denied any wrongdoing.
Twenty-four hours earlier, on Wednesday, August 19, Take-Two served Github with a DMCA takedown notice. “the infringer is sharing the stolen content from our copyright,” it read. The notice didn’t stop there: “The entire repository must be completely disabled, there are no remedies to rectify this clear case of infringement.”
The subpoenas are aimed at identifying whoever uploaded the leaks to Github, as well as “all internal Microsoft business records and investigative records associated with Microsoft’s internal investigation of the ‘cyberleek’ persona sufficient to identify the user(s), person(s) and/or entity/ies associated with that persona.”
On August 21, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted the Microsoft subpoena.
Xbox and Discord say the quiet part politely
Scott Van Vliet, Xbox’s Chief Technical Officer, addressed the matter in a tweet last night. “We are working closely with Take-Two and Rockstar Games to support efforts to protect creative works and intellectual property,” Van Vliet said.
A chillier reply came from Discord. “Discord sometimes receives subpoenas related to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). We review and comply with valid subpoenas when we receive them, as is standard and routine for companies like ours,” the company said.
Statements have come from neither Rockstar nor Take-Two. We’ve asked for comment.
Rockstar reportedly still doesn’t know how this happened
Bloomberg reports that Rockstar has no idea how the leaks occurred or who is responsible. Internally there’s anger and frustration, per Bloomberg, but nobody is planning to shift next week’s Netflix reveal.
Netflix, for its part, is carrying on as though nothing were wrong. A tease for Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look went up on the streamer’s account, with a Thursday, August 27 date attached. Netflix holds it exclusively for six hours before it lands on other platforms such as YouTube.
November 19, 2026 is when GTA 6 launches on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. Until that day, a leaker holding a build of the game and pushing a memecoin is putting out roughly one new video every day.