The leaker doesn’t care about the subpoenas. That much is clear.
Two more GTA 6 gameplay videos went up today, August 22, courtesy of the person or group operating as ‘CyberLeek.’ One shows supercar gameplay and an armed robbery. The other is strip club footage, and it comes with a wink: a snippet of a cutscene in which a character says they need to take “a leak.”
Subtle.
That’s the second cutscene to surface this week, which is the part that should worry Rockstar. Cutscenes suggest the leaker has access to an actual build of the game, and concern is growing that story spoilers could be next.
Eight videos in one week, and every one comes with a sales pitch
These two bring the week’s total to eight. Like the six before them, they advertise the ‘CyberLeek’ memecoin, part of what’s widely considered to be a crypto scheme.
So the leaks aren’t a fan project or an act of chaos for its own sake. They’re marketing.
Take-Two went to federal court
On August 20, Take-Two filed Digital Millennium Copyright Act subpoenas in federal court seeking information from Microsoft and Discord. The company wants identifying details tied to user accounts that belonged to a number of Discord servers, including one connected to Australian GTA content creator Matthew “Matt” Judge, better known as DarkViperAU. Judge has denied any wrongdoing.
The day before that, on Wednesday, August 19, Take-Two hit Github with a DMCA takedown notice. “the infringer is sharing the stolen content from our copyright,” it read. The notice went further: “The entire repository must be completely disabled, there are no remedies to rectify this clear case of infringement.”
Through the subpoenas, Take-Two is after whoever posted the leaks to Github, plus “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.”
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted the Microsoft subpoena on August 21.
Xbox and Discord say the quiet part politely
Last night, Xbox Chief Technical Officer Scott Van Vliet tweeted about the situation. “We are working closely with Take-Two and Rockstar Games to support efforts to protect creative works and intellectual property,” Van Vliet said.
Discord’s response was cooler. “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.
Neither Rockstar nor Take-Two has issued a statement. We’ve asked for comment.
Rockstar reportedly still doesn’t know how this happened
According to Bloomberg, Rockstar doesn’t know how the leaks happened or who’s behind them. There’s frustration and anger internally, Bloomberg reported, though there are no plans to move next week’s Netflix reveal.
And Netflix is proceeding as if none of this is happening. The streamer tweeted a tease for Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look, set for Thursday, August 27. It stays exclusive to Netflix for six hours before reaching other platforms like YouTube.
GTA 6 arrives on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S on November 19, 2026. Between now and then, a leaker with a build of the game and a memecoin to promote is posting a new video roughly every day.
