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Asking a federal court to subpoena Microsoft and Discord to find the hacker seems less likely for a marketing campaign, though.

https://kotaku.com/take-two-subpoenas-microsoft-and-discord-records-related-to-spread-of-gta-6-leaks-2000726633

They asked the New York federal court to subpoena Microsoft and Discord to find out who the hacker is. You don’t do this for a viral marketing campaign.

If you dive further into the stats, this increase is almost exclusively from the US. Mexico went from around 2 percent in May to 6 percent in June and July, and Canada actually went down from 5.6 percent in June to 3.8 percent in July, which, while it was larger than May’s 3.1 percent, seems like it’s within error.

Canada doesn’t show this increase either, going from 3.1-5.6-3.8. Mexico did increase from 2.6 to about 6 percent, and that 6 percent was consistent for June and July.

@theblacklounge@lemmy.zip might be correct in that it’s webscrapers.

For the cost of one orbital data centre, you could probably build 10 terrestrial data centres, bribe literally everyone involved in the construction to pretend that they built it in space, buy an island, fake your death, and spend the rest of your life off-grid.