As 2008 is slowly moving toward its end, we start taking a look at the most pirated titles in various categories. First up are games. As expected, Spore is by far the most downloaded game on BitTorrent, in part thanks to the DRM that came with the game.
BitTorrent Inc. has partnered with two major online game providers, providing technology to accelerate the downloads of clients and patches. BitTorrent Inc. sees the online games space as one of their target markets, as there is a lot of bandwidth to be saved.
Game companies have recently started distributing demos of their games over BitTorrent. Most stay away from “illegal” torrent sites like The Pirate Bay to avoid confusing customers, so the focus seems to be on BitTorrent.com. An excellent turn-based strategy game called Disciples II: Dark Prophecy is one of the demos available.
Apparently Electronic Arts is watching BitTorrent trackers, and started to send out letters to ISP’s of alleged copyright infringers.
We’re used to copyright infringement letters form the RIAA and MPAA because it’s their core business, but letters from game developers are quite exceptional.
A Destructoid reader reported that he was accused of downloading a copy of [...]
An internal BETA version of the PSP game “Gangs of London” has been leaked onto several BitTorrent sites last week. Sony spokesman David Wilson warns potential pirates that “the leak” is incomplete and that it might be a bit “buggy”.
He said:
“The version of Gangs Of London that you have brought our attention to here is [...]
