Correction: GTA 6 Subpoena Actions Are August New York Cases

by 6Charts Team Category: news 8 min read

THIS CORRECTS THIS DESK'S OWN PUBLISHED WORK AND BOTH HALVES OF THE ORIGINAL WERE WRONG. Batch 65 ran take-two-playerauctions-four-filings-22-october-four-dmca-512h-actions-miami-dade, which treated two separate matters as one and placed both in the wrong court. THE FOUR DMCA SECTION 512(h) ACTIONS ARE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK MISCELLANEOUS ACTIONS FILED 20 AND 21 AUGUST 2026, read through RECAP at HTTP 200 and 151,997 bytes at 2026-10-26T03:11:20Z, all four at a $52.00 filing fee and all four carrying the cause M 08-86 INTERNET INFRINGEMENT: 1:26-mc-00421 against Microsoft Corporation, Judge Jennifer L. Rochon, counsel Dale Margaret Cendali, filed 08-20 and terminated 08-21, receipt ANYSDC-33319726; 1:26-mc-00422 against Discord, Inc., Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr., same counsel, filed 08-20 and terminated 08-21, receipt ANYSDC-33320881; 1:26-mc-00425 against Google LLC, Judge John P. Cronan, counsel Rachel Mae Bandli, filed 08-21 and terminated 08-31, receipt ANYSDC-33326626; and 1:26-mc-00426 against X Corp., Judge Analisa N. Torres, same counsel, filed 08-21 WITH NO TERMINATION DATE SHOWN, receipt ANYSDC-33326685. These are the procedural wrapper a copyright owner uses to ask a clerk to issue a subpoena, NOT LAWSUITS AGAINST THE FOUR COMPANIES. Take-Two's Rule 7.1 corporate disclosure statements in these actions identify BLACKROCK, INC. as an other affiliate. ENTRY BY ENTRY: on the X Corp. docket at 88,945 bytes, entry 5 on 2026-08-24 is an ORDER GRANTING the request and nothing later appears, which is 66 DAYS with no termination date. On the Google docket at 92,999 bytes, the exhibit is described as a takedown notice to YouTube and entry 5 on 08-24 is a memo endorsement reading in part that "Petitioner has not provided any information as to how it identified the online personas that it seeks to subpoena from Google", with entry 7 on 08-31 directing the clerk to close the case. On the Discord docket at 122,050 bytes, A SECOND SUBPOENA REQUEST WAS FILED 2026-08-28 AT ENTRY 7 with its own $52.00 fee and receipt ANYSDC-33357239, accompanied by a letter motion to seal and a sealed exhibit, and entry 10 on 08-31 granted it. Five initiating petitions at $52.00 is $260.00 in observed fees. THE REAL 2026-10-22 EVENT IS SEVEN DOCKET ENTRIES, NOT FOUR, in Take Two Interactive Software, Inc. v. PlayerAuctions, Inc., No. 2:25-cv-01880 (C.D. Cal.), read at HTTP 200 and 364,233 bytes at 2026-10-26T03:09:12Z with a second page at 165,844 bytes, assigned to Judge Otis D. Wright II and referred to Magistrate Judge John D. Early, cause 17:501 Copyright Infringement, no termination date. Entries 122 to 128 all dated 2026-10-22: a Transcript Order Form, Leave to File Document Under Seal, Sealed Declaration in Support, Compel, Leave to File Document Under Seal, Sealed Declaration in Support and Protective Order. THE SHAPE IS TWO DISCOVERY MOTIONS, ONE TO COMPEL AND ONE FOR A PROTECTIVE ORDER, EACH WITH A SEALING APPLICATION AND A SEALED DECLARATION, PLUS A TRANSCRIPT ORDER. Entry 119 on 16 October is another transcript order form, entry 120 on 21 October is a transcript, and ENTRY 121 IS MISSING FROM THE MIRROR. The posture: entry 101 on 2026-08-26 continued the trial, setting a FINAL PRETRIAL CONFERENCE FOR 2027-03-08 AND A JURY TRIAL FOR 2027-04-06, which is 138 DAYS AFTER LAUNCH; entry 102 granted a Take-Two motion to compel and entry 103 denied the defendants'; entry 118 on 15 October records a hearing on cross protective-order motions. NOTHING HAS MOVED SINCE 22 OCTOBER, one day before the window opened, so this docket produced nothing inside it. THIS CASE IS ABOUT ALLEGED TRAFFICKING IN GTA ONLINE ACCOUNTS AND CURRENCY AND IT IS NOT ABOUT GRAND THEFT AUTO VI. Named defendants are PlayerAuctions, Inc., IMI Exchange LLC and Paiao Network Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. TWO NEGATIVE SEARCHES CAME BACK CLEAN: a RECAP search for Take-Two Interactive restricted to filings after 2026-10-20 returned NO RESULTS at HTTP 200 and 118,733 bytes, a companion Rockstar Games search after 2026-09-01 returned zero at 118,686 bytes, and a Southern District of Florida search returned 292 keyword hits with no Take-Two case among the recent rows at 160,857 bytes. MIAMI-DADE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT IS A STATE COURT AND IS NOT IN RECAP AT ALL, so this desk can say only that the federal record does not support the Miami-Dade description and nothing stronger, and a Florida state filing is not ruled out by this method. LIMITS: RECAP is a volunteer mirror of PACER and is explicitly incomplete, and CourtListener's own tooltip says the displayed update date is not the date of the latest filing, so AN ABSENT TERMINATION DATE MEANS THE MIRROR HAS NOT SEEN ONE, which is why confidence on "still open" is MEDIUM while confidence on the dates, targets and text is HIGH; the mirror's freshness stamp on the PlayerAuctions docket reads 2026-10-23 1:31 a.m. in an unstated timezone, either reading falling inside the window, which means it has not been refreshed from PACER for roughly three days; NO COURT DOCUMENT WAS DOWNLOADED OR READ, the ten most recent entries carry only type labels, and A SEALED FILING'S CONTENTS CANNOT BE REPORTED FROM A TYPE LABEL; CourtListener's REST API answered HTTP 429 at 102 bytes with a stated limit of 125 calls a day, so all of this came through the plain web interface; NOBODY WAS CONTACTED at Take-Two, its counsel, PlayerAuctions or any of the four subpoena targets. rockstargames.com/robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot by name and every fetch used a standard desktop browser user agent against a specific public URL rather than crawling.

This article corrects this desk's own published work, and both halves of the original were wrong. Take-Two's four DMCA section 512(h) subpoena actions over the Grand Theft Auto VI leaks are Southern District of New York miscellaneous actions filed on 20 and 21 August 2026, not Miami-Dade filings from 22 October. Three have been closed out and the petition against X Corp. has shown no termination date for 66 days. The real 22 October event is seven docket entries, not four, in a copyright case in Los Angeles about GTA Online accounts. What this desk published, and what the dockets say Batch 65 ran the story under the slug take-two-playerauctions-four-filings-22-october-four-dmca-512h-actions-miami-dade, which treated two separate matters as one and placed both in the wrong court. Researcher 2 pulled the dockets through CourtListener's RECAP archive, at HTTP 200 and 151,997 bytes, fetched 2026-10-26T03:11:20Z. Every value below is an observation from the docket. DocketCourtFiledTerminatedTargetJudgeCounsel of record 1:26-mc-00421S.D.N.Y.2026-08-202026-08-21Microsoft CorporationJennifer L. RochonDale Margaret Cendali 1:26-mc-00422S.D.N.Y.2026-08-202026-08-21Discord, Inc.Andrew L. Carter Jr.Dale Margaret Cendali 1:26-mc-00425S.D.N.Y.2026-08-212026-08-31Google LLCJohn P. CronanRachel Mae Bandli 1:26-mc-00426S.D.N.Y.2026-08-21none shownX Corp.Analisa N. TorresRachel Mae Bandli All four carry the cause M 08-86 Internet Infringement and a filing fee of $52.00, with receipt numbers ANYSDC-33319726, ANYSDC-33320881, ANYSDC-33326626 and ANYSDC-33326685 respectively. These are miscellaneous actions, which is the procedural wrapper a copyright owner uses to ask a clerk to issue a subpoena under section 512(h). They are not lawsuits against the four companies. Take-Two's Rule 7.1 corporate disclosure statements in these actions identify BlackRock, Inc. as an other affiliate, which is a routine disclosure and is recorded here because it is on the face of the docket. Official Rockstar postcard artwork, included to illustrate the piece. It does not itself evidence any of the figures discussed here. Entry by entry, including a judge who was not satisfied Three dockets were pulled in full, all at HTTP 200, between 2026-10-26T03:11:37Z and 03:11:38Z. X Corp., 1:26-mc-00426, 88,945 bytes, five entries. Entry 1 on 2026-08-21 is the initiating request for issuance of a DMCA subpoena. Entry 3 is the Rule 7.1 statement naming BlackRock. Entry 4 is a declaration by Rachel Bandli attaching an exhibit described as a DMCA takedown notice to X Corp. Entry 5, on 2026-08-24, is an order granting the request. Nothing later appears, and no termination date is shown. Google, 1:26-mc-00425, 92,999 bytes, seven entries. The exhibit here is described as a takedown notice to YouTube. Entry 5, on 2026-08-24, is a memo endorsement reading in part that "Petitioner has not provided any information as to how it identified the online personas that it seeks to subpoena from Google". Entry 6, on 08-28, is Take-Two's response. Entry 7, on 2026-08-31, directs the clerk to terminate all pending motions and close the case. Discord, 1:26-mc-00422, 122,050 bytes, ten entries. A second subpoena request as to Discord was filed on 2026-08-28 at entry 7, with its own $52.00 fee and receipt ANYSDC-33357239, accompanied by a letter motion to seal at entry 6 and a sealed exhibit at entry 8. Entry 10, on 2026-08-31, grants it. Five initiating petitions at $52.00 each is $260.00 in observed filing fees, which is arithmetic. From 2026-08-21 to 2026-10-26 is 66 days, which is how long the X Corp. action has carried no termination date on the public record. The real 22 October event is seven entries in Los Angeles The docket that actually moved on 22 October is Take Two Interactive Software, Inc. v. PlayerAuctions, Inc., No. 2:25-cv-01880 (C.D. Cal.), read at HTTP 200 and 364,233 bytes at 2026-10-26T03:09:12Z with a second page at 165,844 bytes at 03:09:38Z. It was filed on 4 March 2025, carries the cause 17:501 Copyright Infringement and nature of suit 820, is assigned to Judge Otis D. Wright II and referred to Magistrate Judge John D. Early, and has no termination date. EntryDateDocument type label as RECAP carries it 1222026-10-22Transcript Order Form (G-120) 1232026-10-22Leave to File Document Under Seal 1242026-10-22Sealed Declaration in Support 1252026-10-22Compel 1262026-10-22Leave to File Document Under Seal 1272026-10-22Sealed Declaration in Support 1282026-10-22Protective Order That is seven entries, not four. The shape is two discovery motions, one to compel and one for a protective order, each lodged with a sealing application and a sealed supporting declaration, plus a transcript order. Adjacent entries give the context: entry 119 on 16 October is another transcript order form, entry 120 on 21 October is a transcript with a same day notice of filing, and entry 121 is missing from the mirror entirely. The posture these sit in is on the same docket. Entry 101, on 2026-08-26, granted in part a Take-Two application to continue the trial date, setting a final pretrial conference for 2027-03-08 and a jury trial for 2027-04-06. Entry 102 the same day granted a Take-Two motion to compel and entry 103 denied the defendants' motion to compel. Entry 118, on 15 October, records the minutes of a hearing before the magistrate on cross protective-order motions. Nothing has moved on this docket since 22 October, which is one day before the research window opened, so it produced nothing inside the window. The jury trial date is 138 days after launch, which is arithmetic. This case is about alleged trafficking in GTA Online accounts and currency and it is not about Grand Theft Auto VI. Named defendants across the entries are PlayerAuctions, Inc., IMI Exchange LLC and Paiao Network Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. Where Miami-Dade came from, and what can and cannot be said about it Two negative searches were run and both came back clean. A RECAP search for the phrase Take-Two Interactive restricted to filings after 2026-10-20 returned no results, at HTTP 200 and 118,733 bytes at 2026-10-26T03:08:35Z. A companion search on Rockstar Games restricted to filings after 2026-09-01 also returned zero, at 118,686 bytes at 03:10:06Z. A search restricted to the Southern District of Florida returned 292 keyword hits with no Take-Two case among the recent rows, at HTTP 200 and 160,857 bytes at 03:08:52Z. Miami-Dade County Circuit Court is a state court and is not in RECAP at all. This desk can therefore say that the federal record does not support the Miami-Dade description and nothing stronger than that. A state court filing in Florida is not ruled out by this method, and no attempt to check the Florida state docket succeeded this cycle. Limits RECAP is a volunteer mirror of PACER and is explicitly incomplete. CourtListener's own tooltip on these pages says the displayed update date is not the date of the latest filing in the case. An absent termination date means the mirror has not seen one, which is weaker than a statement that the X Corp. action is open. That is why the confidence on "still open" is medium while the confidence on the dates, targets and text is high. The mirror's freshness stamp on the PlayerAuctions docket reads 2026-10-23 01:31 in an unstated timezone. Either reading of that timezone falls inside the research window, and either way the mirror has not been refreshed from PACER for roughly three days, so newer entries could exist unseen. Entry 121 missing is a further sign of incompleteness. No court document was downloaded or read. The ten most recent entries on the PlayerAuctions docket carry only document type labels in RECAP rather than full docket text, and four of the seven 22 October entries are sealing applications or sealed declarations. A sealed filing's contents cannot be reported from a type label, so this piece does not say what any of them argues or seeks. Nobody was contacted. No statement was sought from Take-Two, from Kirkland and Ellis, from PlayerAuctions or from any of the four subpoena targets, and none of them has commented on any of this. The REST route was unavailable. CourtListener's API answered HTTP 429 at 102 bytes with a stated limit of 125 calls per day and a reset about five hours and twenty minutes out, so all of the above came through the plain web interface at HTTP 200. Retrieval method, disclosed. rockstargames.com/robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot by name. Every fetch above used a standard desktop browser user agent against a specific public URL rather than crawling. Rockstar's own surfaces were not touched for this piece. The ratings board corrections from the same cycle are in the news index, and the server list carries the communities organising around launch.