Take-Two Seeks Discord And GitHub Data In GTA 6 Leak Fight

Take-Two Interactive has asked a New York federal court to let it identify people linked to fresh Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks, CNET reported, moving a prerelease content fight onto Discord and Microsoft-owned GitHub.

The petition targets account and repository data rather than damages at this stage.

Take-Two, the parent company of Rockstar Games, asked the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to issue Digital Millennium Copyright Act subpoenas after gameplay snippets circulated online in mid-August.

The court filing identifies leaked GTA 6 material as copyrighted audiovisual content, artwork, images, dialogue and other creative elements.

A sworn declaration limits the subpoena purpose to identifying people behind the asserted infringement and protecting Take-Two's rights.

Discord is the wider data request.

Take-Two named multiple accounts and sought communications, access records, contact details, account links, Google and Xbox connections, backend metadata, telemetry and device identifiers.

The Microsoft request is narrower, covering information tied to a GitHub repository devoted to the leaks and attempts to identify the leakers.

Both subpoena applications set Sept. 4 as the production date.

They are requests for the court clerk to issue DMCA subpoenas, not court orders already compelling disclosure.

Discord's response kept the company inside its standard legal-process lane: a spokesperson said the platform would review and comply with valid subpoenas when received.

Microsoft's response pointed to an X post by Xbox chief technology officer Scott Van Vliet that framed the company as assisting Take-Two and Rockstar with intellectual-property protection.

The leak campaign has used the name CyberLeek, and the GitHub repository catalogued nine gameplay videos posted across video-sharing sites.

The clips are short, generally one or two minutes, and show Jason, one of GTA 6's protagonists, driving, stealing cars and moving through cutscenes or tutorials without a clear sequence.

One Wednesday clip increased pressure around distribution by linking further leaks to Rockstar's decision not to ship a physical disc.

Rockstar's preorder details show retail boxes that contain a code rather than a disc, and Rockstar had not commented on that threat.

GTA 6 is scheduled for Nov. 19 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. Standard and Ultimate editions are priced at $80 and $100, making the subpoena push part of Take-Two's effort to control the information cycle around one of the games industry's largest planned releases.