YouTuber Named in Take-Two GTA 6 Leaker Subpoena Insists He Did Nothing Wrong

The YouTuber named successful Take-Two's GTA 6 leaker subpoena has denied immoderate wrongdoing.

Today it emerged that Take-Two had issued a subpoena successful a national tribunal requesting accusation from some Microsoft and Discord arsenic it hunts the leaker oregon leakers down the caller spate of GTA 6 gameplay videos.

First reported by Kotaku, the Rockstar Games genitor institution issued the petition yesterday, August 20, successful the New York Southern District Court arsenic portion of a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) subpoena. It wants accusation and records relating to the ‘CyberLeek’ account, which is allegedly down the GTA 6 leaks.

The subpoena requests identifying accusation associated with idiosyncratic accounts that were members of a fig of Discord servers. One of the Discord servers mentioned successful the filing is 'discord.gg/darkviperau,' which is described arsenic the DarkViperAU editors' server. DarkViperAU is the online sanction of Australian GTA contented creator Matthew "Matt" Judge, who has 2.27 cardinal subscribers connected YouTube and astir 900,000 followers connected Twitch. Judge has published elaborate breakdowns of the leaked GTA 6 videos this week connected his assorted channels.

In a tweet, Judge responded to Take-Two's subpoena and the notation of his sanction wrong it. "I don't cognize anything," helium insisted. "That isn't my editors’ Discord. There aren't adjacent immoderate clips of the leaks successful either of my Discords.

"I americium confused. I did accidental helium can't thrust aggregate times, truthful possibly I caused him to constitute 'Cyberleek can't drive' connected the astir caller clips? Maybe helium visited my Discord, I dunno. Rockstar hasn't emailed me, I fishy if they thought I knew thing personally they would bash so.

"Everyone is talking astir these leaks, I americium not special, hopefully."

Judge past held a three-hour livestream crossed YouTube and Twitch titled, “TakeTwo Has Subpoenad [sic] My Discord To Look For Leaker (News),” to respond further. Clearly shocked astatine caller events, Judge joked: “Rockstar conscionable murdered me. I got amended though.”

Judge said helium “accidentally” showed a screenshot of the latest leaked GTA 6 video on-stream, but helium instantly took it down and deleted it “because I don’t privation to get successful trouble.”

While the GTA 6 leaks were discussed and whitethorn person adjacent been shared successful his Discord, Judge insisted helium had thing to bash with however the videos deed the internet. "I don't cognize this leaker!" Judge said. "I person personally shared nothing... astatine slightest not intentionally."

Judge continued: "I'm hoping this is 1 manus not speaking to the different hand, benignant of thing. As in, the radical astatine Take-Two person nary thought who I americium and truthful subpoenaed this worldly not knowing anyone astatine Rockstar could person DMd maine astatine immoderate time, oregon emailed me. I person had dozens of conversations with radical from Rockstar Games. If Rockstar was genuinely unhappy with thing I was doing, I deliberation they would person conscionable emailed me. Or they would person emailed each of us, due to the fact that we're each connected a assemblage email."

"This has been an absorbing time,” helium concluded. “I'm definite I'm gonna beryllium fine, guys. This is weird, but I’ve done thing wrong. No-one’s done thing wrong. It’s conscionable interesting. Definitely 1 for the past books. One much happening to adhd to my precise very long, unusual career.

“And if the feds inquire you stuff, don’t archer them anything,” helium joked, erstwhile again. "Deny everything chat! Burn the evidence!"

Matthew "Matt" Judge, aka DarkViperAU, has responded to Take-Two's GTA 6 leaker subpoena. Image credit: YouTube.

"The copyrighted worldly includes but is not constricted to audio ocular content, artwork, images, dialogue, oregon different originative elements," the filing reads. "Take-Two, done its counsel of record, has submitted a sworn declaration confirming that the intent for which the DMCA subpoena is sought is to get the individuality of an alleged infringer oregon infringers, and that specified accusation volition lone beryllium utilized for the intent of protecting Take-Two’s rights."

Neither Take-Two nor Rockstar person commented connected the caller GTA 6 leaks, nor person the companies commented connected the tribunal filing. IGN has asked for comment.

The subpoena has emerged adjacent arsenic the leaker continues to merchandise GTA 6 gameplay videos. Today, August 21, the GTA 6 leaks stretched into a 4th consecutive time aft yet different gameplay video deed the internet. As with the antecedently released videos, it advertises a memecoin, which 1 GTA instrumentality precocious traced to a Seychelles-based cryptocurrency speech that mightiness beryllium utilized to place the leaker. The watermark connected this latest video reads: "HIGHER MARKET CAP = MORE LEEKS."

The leaks travel conscionable a week earlier the merchandise of Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look, which is simply a timed Netflix exclusive. That’s owed Thursday, August 27, and volition stay exclusive connected Netflix for six hours earlier it makes its mode to different platforms specified arsenic YouTube.

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