GTA 6 piracy "a fact of life," says Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick - Notebookcheck
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With Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) less than two weeks from its November 19, 2026, release and the PS5 jailbreak scene unusually active, Take-Two chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick has said piracy will remain an issue for the company. Speaking at The Wall Street Journal's WSJ Tech: California conference, he said Take-Two would respond with legal and technical measures if piracy becomes a problem.
Zelnick called piracy "a fact of life" but argued that file sizes, complexity, and the need to connect to Take-Two's servers make it less of an issue for games than for film or music. He said Take-Two is prepared to take legal and technical action if piracy becomes a serious problem. Separately, PlayStation Network listings reportedly show GTA 6 requiring PS5 firmware 14.22, which would keep the game off consoles running the public Relapse jailbreak, which tops out at firmware 13.60. Rockstar has also moved digital preloads to November 10 and the download will require up to 212 GB.
Zelnick was speaking onstage in Napa on November 4. Asked about Roblox clones of Take-Two's games, he steered the conversation toward piracy. Joking that he worries about everything despite his laid-back manner, he said:
"Piracy is a fact of life. I've been in every entertainment business there is, and when I was in the movie business, we figured 10-20% at any given time. In the record business, because I was in the record business from 1994 to 2000, by the mid 2000s, I would argue that 80% of that market was pirated; now that's way back down again."
He added that file sizes and complexity make piracy less of an issue in games than in other entertainment, and noted that Take-Two's games require a connection to its servers for a good experience, which would leave pirates needing to run competing…
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