A DMCA notice over one GitHub repo now asks Microsoft for MachineGuids from three Discord servers

MachineGuid is not an account, and nobody signs up for it. It is a string Windows writes during installation, and Microsoft's own support documentation says it survives hardware changes unless the OS drive is replaced ^[9]. That durability is what makes it worth subpoenaing. Set beside an MSA device identifier, registration and last-login IP addresses, a phone number, and whichever Google and Xbox accounts are linked to the profile, it stops being telemetry and starts working as a join key between one machine and a set of online identities ^[2]. The filing is not really asking Microsoft to name a leaker. It is asking for the columns you would need to match Microsoft's records against Discord's.

The records window runs from June 1, 2026 to the present ^[3], which is 80 days as of the filing date ^[17]. Odyssey.gg, which the Microsoft subpoena calls a cheat community and labels the "operator's home" ^[5], did not exist for the first 18 of those days: its guild ID decodes to June 19, 2026 ^[11]. That leaves 62 days of server for an 80-day request ^[19]. The same attachment asks for device telemetry wherever certain "tool/file artifacts" were present, and no list of those artifacts appears in the exhibit ^[8]. The Discord petition also lists 1517326120867991592 as a user ID belonging to the handle Surfer24k, while both subpoena attachments list the same number as Odyssey.gg's server ID ^[12].

The paperwork authorising the Microsoft demand is one notice, sent on August 19 by a Take-Two IP paralegal to GitHub's copyright address over the repository zyrexdz/cyberleek-leak-research, asserting that it "must be completely disabled, there are no remedies to rectify this clear case of infringement" ^[7]. The subpoenas followed a day later ^[21]. At the time of Tom's Hardware's report the repository was still public, with nearly 500 stars, more than 30 forks and a commit pushed at 16:18 UTC ^[13]. A notice that has not taken down a repository is nonetheless carrying a request for the OneDrive contents of everyone who spoke in three servers ^[2][3].

Two of the three servers are Odyssey-branded. The third is DarkViperAU's, which the filings themselves describe as an editors' server and whose ID decodes to January 2017 ^[5][10]. Matthew Judge, the Australian creator who runs it, wrote on X that "I don't know anything" ^[14]. Video editors who posted there sit in the same production request as the cheat community. Microsoft and Discord have 15 days from filing to answer ^[4][18], and they get to decide whether Attachment A is read as written. Meanwhile a sixth leaked gameplay video went up on August 21 ^[15], six days before Netflix premieres An Extended Look ^[20].