Discord is in no hurry to turn over anything.
Following a flurry of reports claiming Take-Two is zeroing in on whoever leaked GTA 6, the chat platform hit back with a technical detail that carries real weight: it hasn’t been served at all yet.
“I can share an update on this,” Discord marketing director Ryan K. Rigney said in a tweet. “Discord has not yet been served with a subpoena from Take-Two. When we do, we’ll evaluate the validity and scope before responding.”
What the judge actually signed off on
Andrew L. Carter Jr., Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, approved Take-Two’s application on Friday, clearing the publisher to subpoena Discord for identifying details on users the Rockstar owner suspects are connected to the leaks.
A parallel subpoena directed at Microsoft also got the green light — and the gap between the two companies’ reactions is the real story. Microsoft issued a statement welcoming the chance to assist Take-Two and Rockstar in tracking down the GTA 6 leaker. Discord, overnight, took the opposite tack.
Take-Two filed the subpoenas alleging Digital Millennium Copyright Act infringement. The publisher wants information and records connected to the 'CyberLeek' account, said to be the source of the GTA 6 leaks.
The server list is where this gets uncomfortable
A single account isn’t the end of it. The filings also seek identifying information for user accounts that belonged to several Discord servers.
Among those named in the paperwork is ‘discord.gg/darkviperau,’ identified as the DarkViperAU editors’ server. DarkViperAU is the handle used by Australian GTA content creator Matthew “Matt” Judge, whose audience spans 2.27 million YouTube subscribers and close to 900,000 Twitch followers. Judge has denied any wrongdoing.
Free speech and privacy advocacy group Reclaim The Net took aim at the Discord subpoena in a tweet.
“Copyright law is supposed to target infringement,” it said. “Here, it’s being used to hunt for identities. Take-Two is seeking DMCA subpoenas that could expose users who didn’t leak or upload GTA VI footage, but who participated in conversations within Discord servers where the leak was discussed.”
107,000 members and counting
The group expanded on the point in an article: “One of the Discord servers in question has over 107,000 members, and while it is not clear if Take-Two is going after each and every one of them, the request does say ‘all identifying information associated with all user accounts’ that were or are members of three named servers since June 1 – and that participated in a conversation in those servers.
“In this case, Take-Two Interactive’s one filings make it clear that they’re not limited to whoever is uploading the leaks, they’re targeting entire communities and channels that are merely existing in the same Discord server as those alleged leakers.
“This is now the pursuit of a membership list under the color of the enforcement of copyright. While it can be crushed if people push back, there’s actually nothing about the DMCA process that discourages this in a strong enough way.
“To file a claim is cheap and quick, and the compliance cost falls on the platforms. There was a time when companies would at least try to maintain the guise that their targets were limited to infringement but, these days, they’re getting more brazen and now hitting anyone who happens to have been standing nearby.”
Nobody’s confirmed being served
Whether Microsoft has been served with Take-Two’s subpoena remains unconfirmed as well, although court filings indicate the company had already opened its own inquiry into the CyberLeek account.
As for the Twitter / X subpoena, it has yet to be approved — likely nothing more than a procedural step.
The leaks, meanwhile, haven’t stopped, and worries are mounting that CyberLeek may dump major story spoilers. Rockstar and Take-Two have both stayed silent.
GTA 6 arrives on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S on November 19, 2026 — leaving all parties about twelve months to fight over who stood in which chat room, and whether that should cost them their anonymity.