The alleged GTA 6 leaker has launched two additional gameplay movies regardless of Rockstar proprietor Take-Two’s subpoenas requesting figuring out data from Microsoft and Discord.
The ‘CyberLeek’ individual or group launched two new movies right now, August 22, one exhibiting extra supercar gameplay and an armed theft, the opposite strip membership gameplay. The latter seems to taunt Take-Two and Rockstar by exhibiting a snippet of a cutscene wherein a personality says they should take “a leak.” That is the second cutscene to emerge this week, and there’s rising concern that the leaker has entry to a construct of the sport and will put up important story spoilers.
These new movies are the seventh and eighth to leak this week. And, like all the others, they promote the ‘CyberLeek’ memecoin as a part of what is widely considered to be a crypto scheme.
On August 20, Take-Two issued Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) subpoenas in a federal courtroom requesting information from both Microsoft and Discord as a part of its hunt for the leaker or leakers behind the current spate of GTA 6 gameplay movies. Take-Two desires figuring out data related to person accounts that have been members of numerous Discord servers, together with one regarding Australian GTA content material creator Matthew “Matt” Decide, aka DarkViperAU. Judge has denied any wrongdoing.
In the meantime, Take-Two issued Github with a DMCA takedown discover on Wednesday, August 19, saying “the infringer is sharing the stolen content material from our copyright.” The takedown discover added: “Your complete repository have to be utterly disabled, there are not any cures to rectify this clear case of infringement.” By way of the subpoenas, Take-Two desires to determine these answerable for posting the leaks on Github, in addition to “all inner Microsoft enterprise information and investigative information related to Microsoft’s inner investigation of the ‘cyberleek’ persona enough to determine the person(s), individual(s) and/or entity/ies related to that persona.”
The USA District Court docket for the Southern District of New York granted the Microsoft subpoena on August 21. Final night time, Xbox Chief Technical Officer Scott Van Vliet tweeted to handle the state of affairs, saying: “We’re working carefully with Take-Two and Rockstar Video games to help efforts to guard artistic works and mental property.”
Discord instructed Variety: “Discord typically receives subpoenas associated to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). We assessment and adjust to legitimate subpoenas once we obtain them, as is customary and routine for corporations like ours.”
Neither Rockstar nor Take-Two have issued a press release. IGN has requested for remark.
In response to Bloomberg, Rockstar nonetheless doesn’t know the way these leaks occurred, nor who’s behind them. And whereas there are not any plans to shift subsequent week’s huge Netflix reveal, Bloomberg reported that there’s frustration and anger internally at current occasions.
Undeterred, Netflix tweeted to tease Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look, which is about for Thursday, August 27, and can stay unique on the streaming platform for six hours earlier than it makes its strategy to different platforms comparable to YouTube.
GTA 6 is due out on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X and S on November 19, 2026.
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