Hero Pirate Stephen Fry Stars In BitTorrent Game
Written by enigmax on July 22, 2009Just last week, multi-talented entertainer and general all round good guy Stephen Fry confirmed what everyone had secretly hoped he would, that he pirates TV shows with BitTorrent. Now, to immortalize those momentous occasions, a new game featuring Fry himself has been released entitled ‘Stephen Fry and The Quantum of Torrents.’
Last week Stephen Fry admitted to downloading TV shows for free using BitTorrent. Speaking at the iTunes Festival in London, Fry told the gathered audience that he previously downloaded episodes of 24 and the series finale of House, starring his former comedy partner Hugh Laurie.
Fry also took the opportunity to have a swipe at the music industry and criticize the Digital Britain report. But enough of the boring stuff already.
Stephen’s antics haven’t gone unnoticed by Glasgow based games design company, T-Enterprise. Inspired by Stephen’s confession, they created a new Flash game entitled Stephen Fry and the Quantum of Torrents in which the player takes control of Stephen in his trademark black London taxi, dodging the law and downloading copies of House.
“When I heard about Stephen Fry’s admission of guilt about downloading illegally at the iTunes Festival I could not believe it! Especially not given the fact he was supposed to be speaking out about piracy in the industry!” said T-Enterprise’s Managing Director Sadia Chishti.
“So he had downloaded the rest of the [House] series legally but it seems that there is always the temptation to take the easy route. At least he has admitted it and not gone down the hypocritical one. What a refreshing change…”
The game is available from iTunes for just £9.99.
Yeah, right…. ;)
Full flash game can be played here
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Excellent :)
great lol
Man, I sucked at that.
LMFAO. Stephen Fry is great. He could bum me rigid any day.
Pretty cool way to kill five minutes, but I don’t really think that the game is worthy of it’s own article.
Phew, now I don’t feel guilty at all about all that Blackadder I downloaded.
If Fry is driving in London, shouldn’t he be on the RIGHT front seat of the taxi?
Crap game… what an awfull gimmic.
omg… T-Enterprise lol , lmao
call yourselves a games creator. lol
The music dosen’t even loop properly.
Looping music in flash is hard to do tho ! ( yea hard as fluff )
Gonna rip this swf open and have a good laugh at the coding.
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TO : T-Enterprise’s Managing Director, Sadia Chishti.. You shoulashad be med and embarassed to let this out.
Novice coders have & do make far better games than this.
Your flash coders may be really good. But this game is laughable.
hard to play :P
didn’t this guy specifically say that he really really hoped that (stupid) people didn’t blow what he said out of proportion and try to turn him into a poster child spokesperson for piracy? i’d say giving him the title “hero pirate” is definitely living up to his worst fears.
@13
Stephen Fry, our most glorious and excellent leader and king, would be proud.
Gimme a break, why abuse his name?
Abuse his name? Good lord.
Grow a sense of humour.
Wouldn’t it be really funny if there was a police raid on Fry’s house and his PC was confiscated to check if he has been illegally downloading…
Since he’s even confessed, in front of witnesses.
Obviously not fun for Fry, but to give some publicity to the madness of current British laws.
Fry is really popular and well-liked, so regular people would be furious, siding with pirates.
Jesus H Christ.
What an awful game.
Sweet, random to see a flash game on TF lol
=D
@10.
You’re a fag; it’s just a game, lighten up.
Go Fry.
Haha really funny game tho awesomely crappy :D
@15,
Some idiot using Fry’s name in an attempt to make money selling this bad a game on iTunes has nothing to do with humour.
Had the game been marginally funny, or at the very least free I might have brought a smile on my face, this doesn’t.
The fact that Torrentfreak decided to report on this without ridiculing the guy is disappointing.
@21
K, reading through the article again I noticed the “yeah right” remark, so I suppose it’s not sold on iTunes. I can’t check from work.
But even so I still considder it abuse of Fry’s name.
@22 I suspect the “yeah right ;)” actually refers to torrenting, not whether the “game” is available on iTunes.
Addendum: A tenner for a game they clearly threw together in no more than two weeks. Definitely worth the price tag then, ha!
Hero pirate, lol. Anyone have a torrent with the game? :D
“If Fry is driving in London, shouldn’t he be on the RIGHT front seat of the taxi?”
Lmao.
@7
That game was DEFINITLY worth of it’s own article.
Now we’ve got star POWAR !!!!!
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