Some reports suggested that YouTube employees were under investigation to have leaked the GTA 6 trailer. It was supposed to be released on December 5, but it had already started circulating all over social media in advance. This made Rockstar release it early.
According to some reports, this left developers at Rockstar feeling like the leak robbed them of being able to receive the show they “had coming.”
Google workers have leaked Nintendo game and are possibly responsible for the GTA 6 leak. According to the source, the database tracked all the information from 2013 to 2018. The idea of contract breaking by staff members resulted in YouTube having to investigate workers for it twice over the last 18 months. These leaks happened after considering how workers view content through YouTube’s backend.
In another instance, popular YouTuber KSI used to post a series in which his fans would make memes that they hoped would get KSI to laugh. If he did, a flash card would emerge on the video screen with an Amazon gift card. The codes were redeemed even before the video was live. KSI’s team was so wary of the situation that it created an internal investigation within Google, where some employees were fired.
Google’s services, these series of events hit at its possibilities regarding privacy and how such leaks could result in scheduled and private videos getting out. It became the trend that all information on a major game release had hit the Internet before developers would want it to. So, discussions began about ways to let developers make major reveals in their own good time—to avoid such leaks.
