Now get your critical thinking skills cap on: How did Rockstar games identify each member of the discord group?

Screenshots of employee devices, having a mole in the group, etc etc? We all know there's a million ways to gain information about people online, there's literally a dozen comms on lemmy about privacy and protecting your info. Your critical thinking cap is more like a conspiracy theory cap. It's not impossible discord collaborated with rockstar, but it's fucking unlikely. What would discord even have to gain from it that's worth the risk?

lol, this is what I deserve for not reading the damn article

I made [essentially the same comment](https://sh.itjust.works/comment/21901991) on another thread yesterday, but I think it might have gone over most people's heads. That or they didn't want to admit it.

So you're implying to me, a mole managed acquire what Discord has in it's database, and managed to 1:1 identify employees and rat them out, instead of just bribing Discord to give them GEOlocation and MAC address information… >What would discord even have to gain from it that’s worth the risk? Money. [GTA is one of the most famous genre people make groups for](https://disboard.org/search?keyword=gta). Why would you turn down a whale rancher's bribe to identify employees willing to negotiate for better conditions when your [rancher is a billionaire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take-Two_Interactive) that can buy you?

Schreier couldn't be bothered to list what the employees positions were. Gonna take a wild guess they weren't devs

Thanks for the recommendations! Especially Easy Red 2 I am a big fan of the Red Orchestra/Rising Storm series and there is a mod coming out soon for Rising Storm 2 called Black Orchestra that I'm planning to fill the Battlefield shaped hole in my heart with. It's in beta right now, but you best believe I'll be letting *everyone* know about it when it hits steam.

This is the most disheartening reply, but also the most telling.

I think it's a bit self-indulgent to consider that this is big-brained or world-shattering to people. You're just repeating the dominant explanation for why these companies can make profit despite their immorality, it isn't challenging or new.

That's against the law, but don't count on this DoJ to enforce it.

This is a good question to ask. This person is not very critical of what they've said and is clearly satisfied with liberal explanations for people's behaviour. Their point is that people are just fundamentally bad and that is why these companies make profit despite an apparently universal condemnation of their actions. It's shallow, inaccurate, and is only useful to feel morally superior to some imagined decadent group that is the source of this problem.

It's difficult to read this and not feel less empathetic toward you. Such desperation to feel superior without any clear indication that you are invested in actually embodying a set of morals yourself. If you care, you should take the time to explore inconvenient explanations for why this happens and refuse satisfaction with actionless answers.

One of the simplest answers is that someone likely was using it at work, and just left a window open while they went to the bathroom. Someone saw it and ratted. Until proven Discord shared the info, it's a little dangerous to make the assumption.

I live my life as simply as possible, and I don't feel superior to anyone. Having said that I stand by my reply. Just because it evoked some feeling of shame from you isn't my problem.

I tried downloading the BF6 free demo and I had to jump through a bunch of hoops trying to get it to run just to find that because the last time I used my EA account was a decade ago, my Steam account is banned from their servers until I go through customer support to unlock it.

One employee had access to multiple employees’ geolocation and mac address data through that one user account… Now a little homework for you: How does Nintendo crush modders, emulators, fan works, and now patent infringers?

Pfft...Like y'all don't know what to do with GTA VI. 

"I don't feel superior to anyone... . ... evoked some feeling of shame from you isn't my problem." You can't even pretend to be an honest person without trying to suggest other people are less morally pure than you. This is not a simple life, it is a dishonest one. I will not be responding again, obviously. There's no conversing with people who lie to themselves.

wrong country

Did the USA invade the UK last night and I didn't notice? Now, to be fair I got an early night, it was Halloween and the nutters were out in force so I popped the ol' sleeping plugs in and nodded off, but I think I'd notice when I got up for brekkie and the yanks were marching down the road xD