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It's my understanding that this essentially amounts to the legal and collateral doxing of hundreds of thousands of people, if it spans all members of these servers.

Stop using Windows. Stop using Discord.

There's been more efforts to catch someone because of a game than millionaires evolved in pedofilia and human traffic

If Cyberleek isn't shitposting out of his ass and actually has a deadman's switch which could leak the build in its entirety online, then this could be a very dumb move on Take Two's end. The authorities would need to go full Ross Ulbricht on his ass and hope they can control the switch.

What's even sadder is that T2I and Rockstar have been such greedy litigious fucks over the years that I'm genuinely rooting for a crypto scammer who has used this entire leak to promote his shitcoin over them.

Just the fact that the GTA6 Extended Look will be a timed Netflix exclusive gives me the ick. That's one step removed from releasing game trailers as exclusive PPV events.

If we're gonna start treating game reveals like UFC and WrestleMania then I'm out.

After seeing the leaks, I can now understand the panic. This can result in a lot of hype going away and cancelled pre-orders due to the fact that it just looks like another GTA game and not some miracle that many tried to portray.

Probably a reason they started pre-orders before showing gameplay.

Manage your expectations people.

Once again, Microsoft sells you snitchware.

They’re fishing with a dragnet subpoena for everyone on 3 discord servers whether or not they had anything to do with to the leak.

This is like demanding the lifetime customer history of everyone who had ever gone to a bar where a crime happened.

I'll echo what most others say here: stop using discord and everything microsoft.

And maybe also reconsider if modern gaming is a worthwhile passtime.

Look, I love a good game as much as the next person. But with everything that is coming to light lately I can't shake the feeling that I want as little digital backdoors for their tentacles around. Because they are harvesting data all over the place.

That also gives you several other informations:

• If Discord can read the device ID, every other website or program can?
• If Discord can't and courts are forcing Microsoft to give out that data for Take2 to correlate IP adresses or other data, that is also really bad

So the only solution is to get the fuck away from everything Microsoft.

Take-Two wants more than just names and is asking for MachineGuid and MSA device identifiers, registration and last-login IP addresses, phone numbers, linked Google and Xbox connections, and OneDrive contents for every account that communicated in three named Discord servers since June 1.

No government is requesting this and nothing can stop this massive transfer of personal information. This is a company mad at facing contempt for their anti-consumer practices and exercising extra-legal methods to find the justice they will buy against the people they deem responsible.

Take-Two is not stopping at who is responsible either. They are scrapping ALL records of everyone who has ever touched those Discord servers. And there is nothing innocent people can do to appeal or stop this.

Corporations are authoritarian motherfuckers.

Basically, Microsoft spies on everyone. They'll identify you and let the feds trawl through your OneDrive account. On Windows, it actually takes a very conscious effort to NOT upload files to OneDrive.

They're targeting a guy just because he unknowingly interacted with the suspect. As a joke.

If anyone questions why people like me have a GrapheneOS pixel connecting to self-hosted cloud storage on a home linux server, this is why.

Daily reminder that buying GTA 6, or any other Rockstar game for that matter, directly supports some of the worst oligarchy and authoritarianism present in the west.

Instead of buying any of their worthless slop - pirate, seed, don't even play it, share any and all leaks. Do your part to hurt their bottom line, and let us hope another Luigi takes up the case. Or ten.

Oh shit, I'm fucked!

No, wait, never mind, I use Linux 🤣

Ngl, the fact that they'll probably block me out of playing because of my OS of choice already killed the hype for me

The hypocrisy is strong from this company making a game that glorifies theft.

Fucking peoples lives over for leaking what is essentially advertising is an insane timeline to be living in. In a proper world, Take-two would get laughed out of court and Microsoft /Discord would be under investigation for spying on its users.

Oh sick! So if this goes through, precedent is set that anyone who can come up with a reason greater than “my video game leaked”, can legally ~~broker~~ ~~collect~~ ~~harvest~~ request data from select discord servers that can directly tie the real identity of an individual to their windows device id.

I can’t see that being abused at all.

They have had amazing free marketing and they still want to sue people.

It even made me a bit curious and I think GTA is dead to me after San Andreas, and Rockstar can go fuck themselves because every game they make just feels janky.

I'll be very disappointed if they're running windows on bare metal

Wasn't there a thread the other week warning everyone about Microsoft device fingerprinting and there were chuds in the comments saying it was a nothing-burger and the fingerprinting was necessary for licensing or some shit? Talk about timing!

Did they check the marketing department?

man I honestly do not know how these people are so brave. Seriously. They're going to be absolutely giga-fucked when they're found out, and it sounds like they're going to be since they're using OneDrive, Discord, and it sounds like their crypto address is directly linked to a known crypto exchange who validates IDs. It's only a matter of time. At this point they should be planning on leaving the country IMO.

Also note how they're asking for Machine IDs. We only heard about their existence a month ago over "security" and already the lawyers are using them. Don't trust non-open-source.

Take Two won't forget this, they go after mod developers. They're only a step down from Nintendo in terms of their legal pushes.

If there is no jail (which at this point I'd be surprised), minimum they're going to have millions owed. Guaranteed these are some idiot kids who are going to fuck up the rest of their lives.

Couldn’t give a rat’s ass about GTA.

If they're not using burner accounts on disposable/amnesiac Linux installs, its kind of on them.

Big for Matrix and XMPP and maybe Delta, sure why not.

j/k, they'll never leave discord

"Ooo, I can't believe I'm going to pay $100 for GTA 6 after all this shit!"

- A Gamer