Discord on the GTA 6 Leak Subpoena: We’ll ‘Evaluate the Validity and Scope Before Responding’

Discord isn’t rushing to hand anything over.

After a wave of reports that Take-Two is closing in on the identity of the GTA 6 leaker, the chat platform pushed back with a technicality that matters: nobody has actually served it 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

On Friday, Andrew L. Carter Jr., Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, granted Take-Two’s request to subpoena Discord for identifying information about users the Rockstar owner believes are tied to the leaks.

The subpoena aimed at Microsoft was granted too. And the contrast in responses is the story here. Microsoft put out a statement saying it’s happy to work with Take-Two and Rockstar to help unearth the GTA 6 leaker. Discord went the other way overnight.

Take-Two filed the subpoenas alleging Digital Millennium Copyright Act infringement. It’s after information and records tied to the ‘CyberLeek’ account, which is allegedly behind the GTA 6 leaks.

The server list is where this gets uncomfortable

The requests don’t stop at one account. They ask for identifying information associated with user accounts that were members of a number of Discord servers.

One of them, named in the filing, is ‘discord.gg/darkviperau,’ described as the DarkViperAU editors’ server. DarkViperAU is the online name of Australian GTA content creator Matthew “Matt” Judge, who has 2.27 million subscribers on YouTube and nearly 900,000 followers on Twitch. Judge has denied any wrongdoing.

Reclaim The Net, a group that advocates for free speech and privacy, criticised 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

In an article, Reclaim The Net went further: “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

It’s unclear whether Microsoft has actually been served with Take-Two’s subpoena either, though court documents suggest Microsoft had already launched an investigation of its own into the CyberLeek account.

The subpoena for Twitter / X hasn’t been signed off yet. That may simply be a formality.

Meanwhile the leaks keep coming, and there’s fresh concern that CyberLeek will release significant story spoilers. Neither Rockstar nor Take-Two have issued a statement.

GTA 6 is due out on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S on November 19, 2026. Which gives everyone involved roughly a year to argue about who was standing in which chat room, and why that should cost them their name.