Take-Two wants to know which Windows machines sat in three Discord servers
GTA 6 footage keeps leaking. To find who is behind it, Take-Two has asked Microsoft to hand over Windows device IDs for everyone who was in three Discord servers — not just the leakers.
Somebody keeps posting gameplay from GTA 6 before the game is out. Daily, according to Tom's Hardware, which first reported the legal filing. Rockstar's owner, Take-Two, wants that person found.
So it subpoenaed Microsoft — a court-backed demand for records — asking for Windows device IDs tied to everyone in three Discord servers. A device ID is the quiet serial number your computer carries around. You never see it. You never agreed to it in any way you remember. It is how a machine can be told apart from every other machine on earth.
Here is the part worth slowing down for: the request isn't aimed at a suspect. It's aimed at a room. If you joined one of those servers to watch clips, argue about a release date, or lurk for ten minutes and leave, your machine is inside the same net as the person who actually leaked the footage.
Being in a chat room is now a reason for a company to ask for your computer's serial number.
That's the mechanic that matters beyond gaming. Discord knows your account. Microsoft knows your device. Put a legal request between the two and an account name stops being a mask — it becomes a pointer to a physical machine, and a machine points to a person, an address, a job. None of that requires a police investigation. It requires a company with lawyers and a grievance.
We don't know what Microsoft will do. We don't know how wide the servers were, or how many people are inside the request. Take-Two hasn't explained why the whole membership is needed rather than specific accounts, and we're not going to invent a reason for them.
Anyone who has ever joined a Discord server out of curiosity — which is most people under 35. Especially the 20-somethings who live in these rooms: gaming servers, crypto servers, job-hunting servers, study groups. You joined for the clips; you didn't sign up to be identifiable hardware in a corporate legal filing. It also touches everyone who assumed their gaming handle was a separate life from their real name — the freelancer whose clients don't know about the modding hobby, the student whose university account is on the same laptop. And it touches the leaker's future, whoever they are: this is what being found looks like now.
Watch whether Microsoft complies, narrows the request, or fights it — that single decision sets the template for the next company that wants a chat room unmasked. Also watch whether Discord says anything publicly. Silence from either is an answer too. And watch whether the daily leaks stop: if footage keeps appearing after the subpoena, the deterrent didn't work, and the data was collected for nothing.
The leak may well be one person. The request covers everyone who was standing nearby. That ratio — one target, an entire room — is the whole story, and it will show up again in cases that have nothing to do with a video game.
Sources: Tom's Hardware report on the Take-Two subpoena, via Reddit r/technology.
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