YouTuber allegedly visited by private investigators after posting Borderlands 3 leaks [UPDATED] YouTube: SupMatto \/ Gearbox Software \/ 2K GamesUPDATE 5:30PM PST August 7 In a statement to video game site IGN, Take-Two Interactive confirmed SupMatto had been visited by private investigators on its behalf, stating: \u201cTake Two and 2K take the security and confidentiality of trade secrets very seriously. The action we\u2019ve taken is the result of a 10-month investigation and a history of this creator profiting from breaking our policies, leaking confidential information about our product, and infringing our copyright.\u201d A YouTuber claims he was allegedly visited by private investigators at the behest of Take-Two Interactive after posting leaks from the upcoming looter shooter Borderlands 3. After previously sharing leaked info for the much anticipated Borderlands 3 on his YouTube channel, \u2018SupMatto\u2019 claims private investigators showed up to his house. The YouTuber posted a video on August 6 where he went into detail about the alleged situation, claiming Take-Two Interactive wasn\u2019t too happy with things he\u2019d posted. Investigators allegedly showed up at SupMatto\u2019s house SupMatto detailed exactly what happened in the unexpected interview with the investigators and claimed that they questioned him for almost an hour. \u201cOn Thursday July 25th, private investigators showed up to my home, trespassed on my private property, and questioned me. I was very tense as many of you could imagine, having two people in suits you don\u2019t know showing up to your home,\u201d he said. \u201cAs lawyers have said, I probably shouldn\u2019t have spoke to them. But I did, because I don\u2019t feel I have anything to hide. They questioned me to various things relating to my channel. They told me they were from Take-Two Interactive. I think we spoke for 30 to 40 minutes.\u201d On April 29, the official Borderlands YouTube channel posted the reveal of the \u2018ECHOcast\u2019 Twitch extension for its upcoming game, which allows players to receive exclusive items while watching streamers play. During the video, the SupMatto claimed the name of one of their testing accounts could be seen. He further clarified: \u201cThis wasn\u2019t found by me, and was posted on various platforms, like Reddit and other social medias.\u201d A post on Reddit with the test account linked is still live as of August 7. One user named \u2018Commandant_Obvious\u2019 posted: \u201cDoing some snooping around I\u2019ve found that the channel has 35 followers with similarly gibberish names but no videos or clips, so we can assume that this is either a test stream for the Echocast addon or the stream that was used to make the example overlay for the video.\u201d The Borderlands YouTuber posted screenshots from test streams that had gone up, before he allegedly received seven copyright strikes on his channel. He pointed out that they were manually filed by the publisher. SupMatto also alleged that maybe 20 minutes after he was interviewed by the investigators, his Discord server and account were terminated and he received a message that stated \u2018your account was involved in selling, promoting, or distributing cheats, hacks, or cracked accounts.\u2019 While it is currently unknown if Take-Two is going to be pushing the situation further, the YouTuber has said he\u2019s going on hiatus to decompress, and has closed his Twitter account: \u201cI am absolutely on hiatus, while I figure out what I want to do.\u201d The whole incident seems to have rattled SupMatto, and might have even soured the avid fan on the series. \u201cI don\u2019t know if I want to play the game. I don\u2019t know if I want to make videos. I\u2019ve played the games religiously for 7 straight years, so it\u2019s time to chill out\u201d he said. Dexerto has reached out to Take-Two Interactive for comment regarding the allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber allegedly visited by private investigators after posting Borderlands 3 leaks [UPDATED] YouTube: SupMatto \/ Gearbox Software \/ 2K GamesUPDATE 5:30PM PST August 7 In a statement to video game site IGN, Take-Two Interactive confirmed SupMatto had been visited by private investigators on its behalf, stating: \u201cTake Two and 2K take the security and confidentiality […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}