Rockstar Just Went Completely Nuclear on The GTA 6 Leaker

The Grand Theft Auto 6 leak situation has gotten even worse, as now Rockstar is resorting to pushing their lawyers and their goons down to the actual doors of any potential suspects who could know or be the infamous leaker Cyber Leak themselves. But it's even more than that, because now your personal freedoms, they're getting axed in the service of discovering who this Cyber Leak guy really is. So, there's been another, well, very big development that is not good if you care about your freedom to access content and all that sort of stuff, because it turns out Rockstar just got even more power thanks to what's going on. If you didn't know, thanks to the leaks, Rockstar and Take-Two got a subpoena against places like Microsoft and Discord. Subpoenas are legal orders that essentially mean the group who gets that order are allowed to demand any and all relevant information pertaining to whatever it is they're trying to claim to find out about. So essentially, if you get this against you by law, you cannot hide any relevant information. And if you're caught deleting said information and it's discovered, you're going to be beyond cooked at that point, and you will be charged. Anyways, like I said, that is already in effect for Discord and Microsoft as an Xbox and all of that. However, now it turns out that Rockstar has furthered their subpoena goals to another giant well of information, which is actually Twitter. As seen here, Rockstar has successfully been granted a subpoena against the entirety of Twitter, or XC Corp as it's called now, via their New York district office. This now allows Take-Two the ability to, in theory, access any relevant information from any account on Twitter itself if they choose to do that. But what does that even mean? You're probably asking. Like, is it just messages via the public forum? If only it were that easy. Unfortunately, it's way more than that. This means that Rockstar and Take-Two now have escalated their investigation, and they are just trying to hit the sources of these leaks before it gets even worse for them. This means that any account that is posting leaked Rockstar content, which if you're on Twitter, you would know that's a lot of people. This means that Rockstar can view any relevant information via those accounts if they target them specifically, like their IP addresses, their full legal names, and, you know, stuff of that nature. That is bad. That's very bad, because obviously a lot of accounts that have been posting these leaks are verified accounts that, in theory, are making money off of X revenue by sharing these leaks via Twitter from the interactions and all of that stuff, believing that since the leaks are, well, leaked by Cyber Leak, that they are not going to be damaged by sharing these videos because they didn't leak it specifically. However, this does mean that Rockstar now has access to everyone's full legal names, their addresses, and then some because of this X verification. Assuming that the users that are being targeted are blue check marked that shared this content in the first place, that means that Rockstar can subpoena those people and just comb through their personal records if they wanted to. But more importantly, if Rockstar wanted to, could they charge people who shared this content? Well, I asked Google itself this very same question, as you can see here. And apparently, yeah, Rockstar could do that if they wanted to. This is why I told everyone in my previous videos on the whole GTA 6 leak situation that if you see any leaks on Twitter or wherever it is, do not share them. Do not post them yourselves. It doesn't mean exactly that Rockstar will pursue legal attacks against every account on Twitter, but what this does mean is that Cyber Leak's actions by association have completely unmasked the vast majority of Twitter's anonymity and user safety protection laws thanks to these leaks that are happening. Now, before people start filling their pants with worry, this doesn't mean that you're cooked specifically 100%. However, what Rockstar and Take-Two are doing here essentially is they're using this subpoena order, I guess, to allow themselves to then, in theory, if they wanted to, subpoena specific users on Twitter. Now, if that happens, like let's say, I don't know, I shared GTA 6 leaked videos on Twitter, right? which I never did because I'm not stupid. But let's just say I did it for sake of argument. And Rockstar goes, "Okay, we're going to subpoena this indon idiot guy." Then in theory, not only could they charge me for sharing this unreleased footage on Twitter that I clearly do not own, but they could also, in theory, gain access to my private chat logs to see if I'm connected to Cyber Leak or something, which is why I keep telling you guys how slippery of a slope this is becoming and that Rockstar and Take-Two are quite literally trying to burn down the entire world in a digital sense in order to find this Cyber Leak guy. Obviously, this means that every account on Twitter is essentially, if they want to, unmasked in a legal sense by Rockstar if they want to find out more about that person. All the GTA 6 themed accounts, which is many. Anyone trolling or pushing for more Rockstar leaks, whatever it is, they could potentially be cooked by this. And that is, well, I'm just going to say it. It's bad, guys. It really, really is. There's no way to not sugarcoat this as a good thing. This is what I always say must not happen, which is the slippery slope that continues to ruin our personal freedoms just keeps getting worse, man. And just how far these companies are willing to go in order to protect their bottom line. Even if it means you all losing whatever keeps you anonymous or protected on the internet, because again, if you're verified on X, you will have your debit, credit card, PayPal, home address, or something, you know, tied to your account so you can get your payouts. So there is now, in theory, no real way to hide from, like, Rockstar here. They are going to pursue every avenue imaginable in order to find these leakers that are responsible for the entire mess. So I figured to ask Google, let's say, I don't know, they want your account's information specifically. Okay, what happens next? Here's what Google told me. Take-Two can file a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against the individual. Under US copyright law, publicly distributing unreleased copyrighted material without authorization is illegal, even if you weren't the original hacker. Now that depends, right? Because this is based on American law. Obviously, a lot of people watching this video or have seen the leaks online. They are from all around the world, and not every country has the same protection laws or whatever set in place. So, this would mean that American users who shared stuff could be cooked, but not someone in, say, another country. Hopefully, maybe. I mean, it could be. One thing that Rockstar could do is use their legal power over users on Twitter and then issue a cease and desist letter. This would not only force the user to delete the content, but also likely pay a fine in the thousands of dollars in order to avoid being a part of a potential lawsuit down the line, which is probably the least worst thing that could happen to, well, it's a lot of money obviously, but it could be a lot more if you're in the lawsuit. But anyways, likely this won't lead to, let's say, criminal charges for, say, anyone who, I don't know, shared a video of GTA 6 online or leaked information via Twitter, which that's good news, at least in theory. However, it does mean that they could still be forced to pay damages in the thousands, like I said, which not everybody can afford obviously, but the criminal charges would be placed against specifically the hackers, right? Cyber Leak in this case, over really anything else. But you shouldn't worry if you've, like, let's say, commented on any leak post or something like that. Okay? You can't be sued or thrown in jail.

themselves. But it's even more than that because now your personal freedoms, they're getting axed in the service of discovering who this cyber league guy really is. So, there's been another well very big development that is not good if

you care about your freedom to accessing content and all that sort of stuff because it turns out Rockstar just got even more power thanks to what's going on. If you didn't know, thanks to the leaks, Rockstar and Take 2 got a

subpoena against places like Microsoft and Discord. Subpoenas are legal orders that essentially mean the group who gets that order are allowed to demand any and all relevant information pertaining to whatever it is they're trying to claim to find out about. So essentially, if

you get this against you by law, you cannot hide any relevant information. And if you're caught deleting said information and it's discovered, you're going to be beyond cooked at that point and you will be charged. Anyways, like I

said, that is already in effect for Discord and Microsoft as an Xbox and all of that. However, now it turns out that Rockstar has furthered their subpoena goals to another giant well of information, which is actually Twitter.

As seen here, Rockstar has successfully been granted a subpoena against the entirety of Twitter, or XC Corp as it's called now, via their New York district office. This now allows Take 2, the ability to in theory access any relevant

information from any account on Twitter itself, if they choose to do that. But what does that even mean? You're probably asking. Like, is it just messages via the public forum? If only if it were that easy. Unfortunately, it's way more than that. This means that

Rockstar and Take 2 now have escalated their investigation and they are just trying to hit the sources of these leaks before it gets even worse for them. This means that any account that is posting leaked Rockstar content, which if you're

on Twitter, you would know that's a lot of people. This means that Rockstar can view any relevant information via those accounts if they target them specifically like their IP addresses, their full legal names, and you know, stuff of that nature. That is bad. That

that's very bad because obviously a lot of accounts that have been posting these leaks are verified accounts that in theory are making money off of X revenue by sharing these leaks via Twitter from the interactions and all of that stuff

believing that since the leaks are well leaked by Cyber League that they are not going to be damaged by sharing these videos cuz they didn't leak it specifically. However, this does mean that Rockstar now has access to everyone's full legal names, their

addresses, and then some because of this Xverification. Assuming that the users that are being targeted are blue checked marked that shared this content in the first place, that means that Rockstar can subpoena those people and just comb through their personal records if they

wanted to. But more importantly, if Rockstar wanted to, could they charge people who shared this content? Well, I asked Google itself this very same question. as you can see here. And apparently, uh, yeah, Rockstar could do that if they wanted to. This is why I

told everyone in my previous videos on the whole GTA 6 leak situation that if you see any leaks on Twitter or wherever it is, do not share them. Do not post them yourselves. It doesn't mean exactly that Rockstar will pursue legal attacks

against every account on Twitter, but what this does mean is that CyberLak's actions by association has completely unmasked the vast majority of Twitter's anonymity and user safety protection laws thanks to these leaks that are happening. Now, before people start

filling their pants with worry, this doesn't mean that your cook specifically 100%. However, what Rockstar and Take 2 are doing here essentially is they're using this subpoena order, I guess, to allow themselves to then in theory, if they wanted to, subpoena specific users

on Twitter. Now, if that happens, like let's say, I don't know, I shared GTA 6 leaked videos on Twitter, right? which I never did cuz I'm not stupid. But let's just say I did it for sake of argument.

And Rockstar goes, "Okay, we're going to subpoena this indon idiot guy. Then in theory, not only could they charge me for sharing these unreleased footage on Twitter that I clearly do not own, but they could also in theory gain access to

my private chat logs to see if I'm connected to Cyber League or something. which is why I keep telling you guys how slippery of a slope this is becoming and that Rockstar and Take 2 are quite literally trying to burn down the entire

world in a digital sense in order to find this Cyber League guy. Obviously, this means that every account on Twitter is essentially if they want to unmasked in a legal sense by Rockstar if they want to find out more about that person.

all the GTA 6 themed accounts, which is many. Anyone trolling or pushing for more Rockstar leaks, whatever it is, they could potentially be cooked by this. And that is, well, I'm just going to say it. It's bad, guys. It really,

really is. There's no way to not sugarcoat this as a good thing. This is what I always say must not happen, which is the slippery slope that continues to ruin our personal freedoms just keeps getting worse, man. and just how far

these companies are willing to go in order to protect their bottom line. Even if it means you all losing whatever keeps you anonymous or protected on the internet cuz again if you're verified on X you will have your debit, credit card,

PayPal, home address or something you know tied to your account so you can get your payouts. So there is now in theory no really way to hide from like Rockstar here. They are going to pursue every avenue imaginable in order to find these

leakers that are responsible for the entire mess. So I figured to ask Google, let's say, I don't know, they want your accounts information specifically. Okay, what happens next? Here's what Google told me. Take 2 can file a federal

copyright infringement lawsuit against the individual. Under US copyright law, publicly distributing unreleased copyrighted material without authorization is illegal, even if you weren't the original hacker. Now that depends, right? Because this is based on American law. Obviously, a lot of people

watching this video or have seen the leaks online. They are from all around the world and not every country has the same protection laws or whatever set in place. So, this would mean that American users who shared stuff could be cooked,

but not someone in say another country. Hopefully, maybe. I mean, it could be. One thing that Rockstar could do is use their legal power over users on Twitter and then issue a cease and desist letter. This would not only force the

user to delete the content, but also likely pay a fine in the thousands of dollars in order to avoid being a part of a potential lawsuit down the line, which is probably the least worst thing that could happen to well, it's a lot of

money obviously, but it could be a lot more if you're in the lawsuit. But anyways, likely this won't lead to, let's say, criminal charges for say anyone who, I don't know, shared a video of GTA 6 online or leaked information

via Twitter, which that's good news, at least in theory. However, it does mean that they could still be forced to pay damages in the thousands, like I said, which not everybody can afford obviously, but the criminal charges would be placed against specifically the

hackers, right? Cyber leak in this case, over really anything else. But you shouldn't worry if you've like let's say commented on any leak post or something like that. Okay? You can't be sued or thrown in jail for that. So relax. If

you are someone who did that on Twitter, it's okay. You're not going to jail.

It's fine. But if you shared those videos purposely and advocated for Cyber League to do more or you shared it in DMs to somebody else on let's say Discord or something like that, I would probably stop doing that. Or Rockstar

maybe might believe that you have some connection to any of these things. They could subpoena you and then that would scare you for sure. But it does show how far Take 2 and Rockstar are willing to go now if they are targeting Twitter

specifically here now because Twitter really, let's be real, is one of the last true bastions of where information can freely be shared without fear. So seeing this happen tells me that more companies might try a similar approach to stop really anything that goes

against their bottom dollar. It was also revealed recently on Twitter, which um I probably can't show this, but Legacy Killer HD, another YouTuber, found an image that might have tied the closest location to Cyber Leak that people are

sharing online. And again, I'm not sure I can share the image, but what I can say is that the supposed fine claims of Cyber Leak might be somebody who exists somewhere where Eastern Daylight Saving exists right now, which at least narrows

down their location somewhat. Also, there was an account called Stay on the Grind on Discord that Legacy Killer HD also found that was discovered to exist in the GTA servers on Discord about 2 days prior to the release of those leaks

that was asking about being able to release leaks pertaining to GTA 6 as well on this Discord server. Again, I can't really show any of this because obviously Rockstar is getting pretty crazy now, but it just shows how far

people are willing to go to find the identity of CyberLak in order to stop the leaks from happening or just really accuse anyone that they think that could be responsible. But despite all of this, Rockstar is now going even further. As

seen here from Channel News, the entire situation has now escalated and Rockstar is pulling every lever imaginable to discover the identity of Cyber League.

This comes after Cyber League has released three more leaked videos of GTA 6 to the internet involving a video game store as well as an adult club where every character model is uh let's just say very scantily clad and showing a lot

of skin and that's putting it lightly. These are all likely things that Rockstar wanted to keep hidden until the game released. But it's shown through the leaks that GTA 6 is going to, you know, definitely put the M and M for

mature this time around. But CyberLak is now also taunting Rockstar as they're so confident that they will never be able to discover their true identity. As Channel News says it here, not only is Cyber League promoting their cryptocurrency that they're telling fans

to also dress up as CyberLak with physical discs to protest outside of Rockstar's offices. And if they do this, Cyber League will release more videos.

Actually, it's becoming somewhat of a I guess revolution of sorts that is all happening because Rockstar and by proxy Sony have pretty much eliminated the concept of physical discs. So now billions will be burned, which is making this whole situation very, you know,

interesting for me. I got to be real. The leaks are being considered by some a marketing tool by Rockstar, but the likelihood is that this is not really the case since not only are copyright claims being issued all over social

media to really anyone that is posting these, but literal goons are quite literally now being sent to the doors of users online who claim that they have even a small inkling of an idea as to who Cyber League is. As Gaming Bible put

it here, one user had actual lawyers from Rockstar show up to their door in the UK because they were making comments online pertaining to the GTA 6 leaks. As you can see here, this user posted on the GTA 6 subreddit that on August 16th,

something would happen pertaining to GTA 6. But as I said there, don't ask me how I know. Obviously, this ended up being the date that Cyber Leak ended up leaking a lot of things that kickstarted all of this happening in the first

place, but is seen there. Users then swarmed this Pilot user asking them if they knew who Cyberlak was. And Pilot claimed that they knew who they were through a friend of a friend. Probably the dumbest thing you could say. But

what started out as a simple bait and switch to, I don't know, get popularity or something. It quickly evolved because like I said, lawyers and investigators ended up showing up to this Pilot user's house. So Pilot, whose real name is

Lewis, shared clips of these lawyers showing up to his house on Twitter. So here's the first one. Please watch this.

How are you doing? Yeah, not too bad. How are you, sir? Um, sorry. What's your say to Buck? Is it Louis Burke?

Yeah. How can I help? What's up, please? My name's David. I'm I'm here on behalf of Rockstar.

Okay, so that David guy in the video is a lawyer who works for Rockstar. And yeah, sure enough, they showed up to Louiswis's home looking for answers about Cyber League. This Lewis guy ended up recording more of his conversation

with Rockstar's lawyers who showed up to his house. So, here another clip. Watch this.

Yeah. Well, they basically what they're saying is they're not happy with that. They're not happy with that.

They're not happy with it. All right. They're not happy. Um, obviously Well, what they're doing now is they're on the phone to the lawyers.

Okay. So, I I don't know. I don't know what to tell you cuz that's 100% the story. So, yeah. Just Yeah. They're not happy with that. So, I don't know if they've heard that for somewhere else or what,

but they're talking about me. Yeah. Okay. So, what they're going to get search for my devices and stuff?

Don't know. Not sure. But basically they're they're on the phone to the lawyers now. So they're basically this is sort of like your last chance to say is this a scare tactic to try?

It's not we're not looking for any fess up. We're not looking for basically what we're after is do you know certain individuals under certain handles and right do where's who are the sources? That's what we're after. Um, ultimately that's

what they're after and I think it they'll keep on pushing that because obviously at the end of the day you put someone out online is then guessed a date just due to pure chance which is hard to believe honestly.

Well, the only reason I just bro then after this Lewis's mom apparently allowed these private investigator lawyer guys into their home to which they were now speaking to Louiswis's mom about what happened. So here, watch that clip too.

Leaks in relation to so we're for Rockstar leaks in relation to this game etc. Your son has obviously put something up on Reddit and basically what your son's saying is it's he's guessed it right over the pond. Now they're finding that

hard to believe he's got the exact exact day right. So and according to Lewis, these private investigators wanted access to all of his devices. They wanted to check to ensure that he was not attached in any way to this cyberly guy. Of course,

Lewis wouldn't let them do that. And at this point in the story, if Rockstar's goons want to go any further with this, they will need a search warrant. And given what's been going on, they likely will be able to get that even if they

wanted to, right? Cuz Lewis, however, as seen here from their own Twitter, claims that the post about August 18th was just a lucky guess and nothing more. Lewis claims he was just guessing when the third trailer for GTA 6 would end up

dropping. And he happened to just guess the exact date that Cyber League of all people would begin their crusade against the entire games industry pretty much, which was, you know, pretty unlucky depending on how you look at it.

Regardless though, this shows that Rockstar is getting very desperate. They're willing to show up now to people's houses and accuse them of things at even the slightest claim. So, in my opinion, this whole rumor of this is all a marketing stunt, I doubt that

100%. Rockstar would not be wasting lawyers time and investigators on these things if this wasn't a legit leak on their end. Plus, you have to remember these leaks have already made Take 2 lose $2 billion in stock value. I don't

know what kind of marketing department would believe that, hey, it's a good idea to purposely drop their employer's value by that much money and be like, yeah, this is a good thing, guys. Trust us. No, this is a real leak and Rockstar

is just willing to burn the world down to find Cyber Leak. As Gamer Ranch shows it here, Rockstar finally gave their response to the leaks for the first time ever. As seen there, Rockstar is disappointed that the the leaks are out

obviously, but they're not allowing it to waver their commitment to the game or the upcoming Netflix reveal, which this video will be out on August 26th. So, the 27th is the Netflix reveal officially. And yeah, it's going to be

huge. Of course, Rockstar and Take 2 do believe as seen here that these leaks will not impact their sales at all, which may be a good thing for them.

However, this sort of confidence in the product could also galvanize someone like a Cyber League into furthering their damage in order to cause actual harm to GTA 6's image. There have been rumors for a while now that Cyber League

claims to have access to the ending of GTA 6's story, for example. And let's say if that were true and Cyber League really wanted to burn Rockstar for their commitment to an all digital future.

Cyber League would definitely then leak all of that just to annoy everyone at Rockstar for sure and that would 100% delay the game as well. However, stop destroying games is urging for the leaks to stop because in their opinion this

entire situation tarnishes the reputation of games communities as a whole as seen here from Rock Paper Shotgun. But personally, I think while I understand where SKG is coming from, the reality is things have gotten so bad so quickly, it's really no wonder why this

is happening the way that it is. If Rockstar and Take 2 are now willing to subpoena X of all places, it proves that the games industry is willing to do whatever it takes to silence any sort of rebellion, really, no matter the cost.

Again, I never said that I agree that leaking is a morally good idea, but only that I understand why it's all happening. Because these companies, no matter how fancy the trailer looks or how cool the cars drive, they don't care

about us. The fact that they're setting literal like people to people's houses, on the off chance that they might know something proves just how desperate this entire situation really is for Rockstar and Take 2. The thing is that this

didn't need to happen if the games industry actually respected their player base. But instead, they'd rather take away more freedoms and limit our access to the very content we have to still buy at full price, no less, and make us feel

as though we should be totally okay with it no matter what happens. It's just wrong to me. But it is obvious that's what's going on with the leaks has clearly gotten out of hand. But I don't think it will maybe tarnish our

community's like reception per reputation. I guess this is not reflective of us as a people. It is only reflective of Rockstar and Take 2's inability to just respect the paying customer. That's what it comes down to.

We are not going to see these things get better, it's very obvious that the further this industry evolves, that the more it's going to pivot in the direction of we don't matter. And that's pretty much it. I hate to say it, but

Rockstar did kind of do this to themselves. And unfortunately for all of us, stop destroying games included. The industry has really done nothing to help our cause for the most part, right?

Places like Ubisoft and more, they didn't do anything but sabotage SKG instead of helping it because they don't care about player freedom. And it's clear that the people out here are sick and tired of being treated like they're

cattle, right? One podcaster, Kiwi Talks, as you can see here, says that we should not hope for GTA 6 to fail because it would lead to disastrous consequences for the entire games industry. It would, in his words, dry up

further investor actions to make more games happen. But I think if GTA failed, it would only make the games industry backpedal to then realize that this way of doing things is clearly unsustainable. I know it won't fail.

It's Grand Theft Auto. But either way, things need to change somewhat if they're willing to target Twitter and now show up at people's houses. I mean, how much further are these companies willing to go to ensure that they keep

their power? This is not the fault of the gaming public. We just wanted good games. But apparently wanting to be respected, that's a step too far now.

And that we should buy GTA 6 no matter what simply because if we don't that the industry might fall apart. But I don't think we need more Grand Theft Autoike games of that size. We actually need more middlebudget smaller games instead.

We need games that don't take 10 years to make with budgets in the Avengers level of profits needed in order to succeed. Like I'm currently playing The Seking City 2 and enjoying it. It's not a long game, but it's fun and I do want

more games like that. Not everything needs to be 300 hours long in my opinion in order to justify its purchase price.

And plus, let's be real, if GTA does well, which it will, in turn, it will actually make the situation around other games in terms of like their prices and what they offer actually even worse. Cuz if someone pays $80 for Grand Theft

Auto, they're going to expect Grand Theft Auto level quality for any other game that has a similar pricing model to Rockstar's latest game. And we both know that not many other games will be able to match Grand Theft Auto in quality. So

by that game existing, many other games will actually be damaged because the existence of Rockstar's Epic will cause them to lose buying power as well.

Either way, this removal of freedoms in the wake of leaks for Twitter is alarming. Like where does this stop?

When does Rockstar have enough power to satiate their struggle? Why is also the fate of the games industry meant to be in our hands to save when it's these people who decided to spend generational fortunes making these games in the first

place the way that they're doing it. But it's up to us to save everything. But if someone steps out of line and wants our freedoms protected, we are going to lose that same freedom as well. And I'm not

supposed to look at that as if it's not the craziest thing due to how stupid this all sounds when you say it out loud. Look, we all deserve better. And right now, everyone is playing their hands. And personally, none of them is

in our favor. I just say, let them fight. Let them duke it out. Whoever wins wins. It's not our fault either way. We don't have to save anything. But what do you think? Let me know. Thanks for watching. Subscribe if you'd like to

and see you guys next time.