Four New Take-Two Filings on 22 October in the PlayerAuctions Case

Take-Two's copyright case against the GTA Online account marketplace PlayerAuctions produced four new docket entries on 22 October 2026, a week after a magistrate refused the defendants' attempt to block two depositions. Separately, the paper trail of Take-Two's August hunt for Grand Theft Auto VI leakers runs to four distinct federal actions against Microsoft, Discord, Google and X. And this desk's own Miami-Dade thread closes negative: three days after the meeting, the minutes are still unpublished, and direct probes for them return HTTP 200 with 0 bytes. The PlayerAuctions case, and what the new entries do and do not show The case is Take Two Interactive Software, Inc. v. Playerauctions, Inc., 2:25-cv-01880 in the Central District of California, filed 4 March 2025, assigned to Judge Otis D. Wright II and referred to Magistrate Judge John D. Early. Cause 17:501 Copyright Infringement, nature of suit 820 Copyright, jury demand by the plaintiff. Co-defendants named in the docket are IMI Exchange LLC and Paiao Network Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. The docket was read at HTTP 200 and 364,109 bytes on 2026-10-23T03:15:01Z, with its later page at HTTP 200 and 158,265 bytes in the same fetch. EntryDateDocument type label 12021 Oct 2026Transcript not numbered in the listing21 Oct 2026Notice of Filing Transcript 12222 Oct 2026Transcript Order Form (G-120) 12322 Oct 2026Leave to File Document Under Seal 12422 Oct 2026Sealed Declaration in Support 12522 Oct 2026Compel A hard limit applies to those four rows and this article honours it. Unlike entries 1 to 119, entries 122 to 125 carry only short document type labels with no party attribution and no description. So this desk cannot say who filed 123, 124 or 125, what relief 125 seeks, or against whom. "Compel" is a document type and not a quoted docket entry. The defensible sentence is the one above: four entries were docketed on 22 October 2026, one of them a motion to compel, with two of them sealed material and a third relating to sealing. The ruling a week earlier is fully in the docket text. At a motion hearing on 15 October 2026 before Magistrate Judge Early, the applications to file materials under seal at entries 106 and 114 were granted, the defendants' motion at entry 108 was denied, and Take-Two's motion at entry 109 was granted in part and denied in part, with the minute order directing readers to the document for details. Entry 108 was the defendants' motion for a protective order covering the depositions of Chen Xia and Richard Ibanez. Entry 109 was Take-Two's motion for a protective order and to compel compliance with a court order to produce documents. No brand new Take-Two case was docketed in October. A search by case name with a filed-after date of 1 October 2026 returned 0 Results at HTTP 200 and 118,607 bytes on 2026-10-23T03:14:13Z. The PlayerAuctions activity is movement inside an existing case in live discovery, 27 days before the game ships. Four actions, four platforms, and one judge who pushed back In August, Take-Two opened four separate miscellaneous actions in the Southern District of New York to force four platforms to identify Grand Theft Auto VI leakers. All four carry the cause "M 08-86 Internet Infringement", all four were brought by Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., and all four dockets were read at HTTP 200 on 2026-10-23T03:13:45Z. CaseTargetFiledTerminatedJudgeCounsel of recordExhibit named 1:26-mc-00421Microsoft Corporation20 Aug 202621 Aug 2026Jennifer L. RochonDale M. CendaliExhibit 1, Github DMCA Notice 1:26-mc-00422Discord, Inc.20 Aug 202621 Aug 2026Andrew L. Carter Jr.Dale M. CendaliExhibit 1, DMCA Takedown Notices to Discord 1:26-mc-00425Google LLC21 Aug 202631 Aug 2026John P. CronanRachel BandliExhibit 1, DMCA Takedown Notice to YouTube 1:26-mc-00426X Corp.21 Aug 2026no termination dateAnalisa TorresRachel BandliExhibit 1, DMCA Takedown Notice to X Corp. Each initiating document carried a $52.00 filing fee, and each docket also carries a Rule 7.1 corporate disclosure statement identifying an other affiliate, BlackRock, Inc., for Take-Two. All four were surfaced by a RECAP full text search for the exact phrase "Grand Theft Auto VI", HTTP 200 at 157,826 bytes read 2026-10-23T03:12:57Z, returning six cases, which is the evidence that the underlying documents name the game. Three of the four were plainly granted and the fourth must not be reported either way. The Microsoft and Discord dockets each carry an order granting the petitioner's request, with the Discord one dated 31 August 2026 and headed as a subpoena to Discord, Inc. The X Corp. docket carries an order granting the request for issuance of a subpoena to X Corp., dated 24 August 2026. The Google action is different. On 24 August 2026 Judge Cronan issued a memo endorsement stating that the petitioner had provided no information as to how it identified the online personas it sought to subpoena from Google, including its basis for believing those users were associated with the posting of a specific YouTube video, and directed Take-Two to supplement its application promptly. Take-Two filed a response on 28 August. On 31 August Cronan issued a second endorsement directing the clerk to terminate all pending motions and close the case. That endorsement does not say the subpoena was granted and does not say it was refused, so neither is reported here. The Discord action also shows a second round: a letter motion to seal addressed to Judge Carter from counsel dated 28 August 2026, a second initiating request as to Discord the same day under fee receipt ANYSDC-33357239, and a sealed notice of a sealed version of Exhibit A. The Discord subpoena target list is therefore partly under seal. None of the four dockets shows any entry after 31 August 2026. A search for "Rockstar Games" with a filed-after date of 1 October 2026 returned 0 Results at HTTP 200 and 118,852 bytes. The "Last Updated: Oct. 9, 2026" line on all four dockets is a RECAP scrape timestamp and not a filing. Official Rockstar screenshot, included to illustrate the piece. It does not itself evidence any of the figures discussed here. Miami-Dade: the thread closes negative, and it is still open This desk published a correction in batch 64 under the slug miami-dade-20-october-agenda-no-gta-item-correction-miami-vice-85-grant, establishing that no Grand Theft Auto item appeared on the Board of County Commissioners agenda for 20 October 2026. That correction has now been re-run independently and it stands. CheckResultRead at The 20 October agenda, HTTP 200, 224,129 bytes, in-page date "October 20, 2026"Grand Theft 0, Rockstar 0, Take-Two 0, Leonida 02026-10-23T03:05:07Z The minutes index, HTTP 200, 131,802 bytes, 1,105 dropdown optionsNewest option is value 5557, text "10/6/2026, DRAFT", and it is the only October 2026 entry. No 10/20/2026 option and no 10/22/2026 option2026-10-23T03:15:58Z Direct minutes probes for meeting ids 5568 and 5569HTTP 200 with 0 bytes on both2026-10-23T03:16:19Z The next meeting, id 5569, HTTP 200, 30,654 bytes, in-page date "Thursday, October 22, 2026", 9:30 AM, Commission ChambersIt is the Comprehensive Development Master Plan and Zoning agenda, official version. Grand Theft 0, Rockstar 0, MV Films 0, Take-Two 0, Leonida 02026-10-23T03:13:13Z Meeting ids 5570, 5571 and 5572HTTP 200 at 33,598 bytes each, byte identical, which is the fallback index page, so those ids do not exist yet2026-10-23T03:13:13Z A measurement note, because two honest readings of the same agenda differ. Batch 64 read it at 221,096 bytes on 2026-10-22T03:25:10Z with the file, changes and auditor query parameters attached. This cycle read it at 224,129 bytes on 2026-10-23T03:05:07Z without them. Those are different URLs, so different byte counts are expected, and both are printed rather than one being quietly adopted. Anyone drafting "the minutes are now published" would be wrong. The floor record for 20 October cannot be read at all, by anyone, from the county's public surfaces as of the instants above. Two standing warnings this desk will keep repeating First, nothing in matter 261843 may be reported as passed. The matter PDF was downloaded again, HTTP 200 at 1,913,338 bytes on 2026-10-23T03:16:28Z, yielding 44,963 characters of extracted text, and every blank was checked individually. The resolution number line is blank. The mover line is blank. The seconder line is blank. All thirteen commissioner vote lines are blank. The Deputy Clerk signature line is blank. The attached draft grant agreement carries a blank party name, a blank principal place of business, a blank execution date and another blank resolution number. And the line reading that the Chairperson thereupon declared the resolution duly passed and adopted this 20th day of October, 2026 is pre-printed template text, typed into the form before the meeting. It records nothing. The only defensible statement is that the item was placed on the 20 October 2026 agenda as item 14(A)(3) and that the county has published no minutes recording its disposition. Second, "Miami Vice 85" is a film and has nothing to do with Rockstar or Grand Theft Auto. Matter 261843 directs the county's Office of Film and Entertainment to negotiate a grant agreement with MV Films LLC, or a subsidiary or affiliate, for a county grant of $1,020,000.00 from general funds originally allocated for film incentives, for the production of a film called Miami Vice 85. Prime sponsor Senator Rene Garcia, co-sponsor Juan Carlos Bermudez, with a County Attorney memorandum from Geri Bonzon-Keenan dated October 20, 2026. The resolution's conditions require the production to spend $10,000,000.00 in Miami-Dade County, to employ county residents as no less than 30% of the below-the-line crew for the county portion, to use local businesses as no less than 50% of vendors and contractors or else incur at least $5,000,000.00 of qualifying expenditure with local businesses, and to submit an acceptable independent compliance audit. The recitals state that the 2025-2026 film incentive funds were recaptured during development of that year's budget to help address the countywide budget gap, and cite prior resolutions R-316-23 and R-1085-23. The word Rockstar appears zero times in the agenda and Grand Theft appears zero times. The surface resemblance between "Miami Vice" and Grand Theft Auto VI's Vice City setting is a coincidence, and it is almost certainly what produced this desk's original error. Limits No court PDF was read for the litigation sections. Every detail about the PlayerAuctions case and the four August actions comes from docket text and document type labels. Nobody on this desk opened a filed brief, declaration or order, and the sealed material is sealed. The 22 October PlayerAuctions entries carry no party attribution. This article does not say who filed them, what any of them argues, or what entry 125 seeks. Anyone who needs that must buy the documents from PACER. The Google DMCA action is reported as neither granted nor denied. Judge Cronan's closing endorsement says only that the clerk should terminate pending motions and close the case. Nothing in matter 261843 is reported as passed, adopted, approved or defeated, for the reasons set out above, and no motive is alleged against any commissioner. Why the agenda is not proof of why. It proves that no Grand Theft Auto item was agendised for 20 October 2026. It does not establish why. A deferral, a withdrawal before filing, an off-agenda add-on and an error upstream of this desk's own earlier sourcing all remain live, and the unpublished minutes are the reason none of them can be ruled out. No trademark claim is made anywhere in this piece. Every USPTO search route tried failed: the trademark search API returned HTTP 404 with an object storage error, a POST to it returned HTTP 405, and the site itself is a client side JavaScript shell with no server rendered results. Nothing is said about Vice City, Leonida, Goodtime State or Only in Leonida as marks. CourtListener's REST API is closed to anonymous callers, returning HTTP 403 with a message to that effect, so all of the above came through its plain web search routes and docket pages, which returned HTTP 200 throughout. 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. 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