StarCraft 2 The Most Pirated Game of 2010 So Far
According to statistics collected and analyzed by the popular torrent blog TorrentFreak, StarCraft 2 is the most pirated game of 2010 so far, with over 260,000 copies downloaded illegally.
The data shows that close to 100,000 copies were downloaded via BitTorrent on the first day alone, which is an astonishing number of pirates all in one place. The data also points out that “50,000 people [are] actively sharing the game” at the time of writing. 2009′s piracy champion was Modern Warfare 2, with a staggering 4.1 million illegal downloads.
Although BitTorrent appears to be a bit of a thorn in Blizzard’s side, they aren’t afraid of using it to their advantage, either. Blizzard have used a ‘BitTorrent-based distribution client’ to distribute StarCraft 2 to legitimate users, bringing them fast speeds as well as reduced server load on their part. It just goes to show that the system of torrenting is not an inherently bad one- it’s just made a bad name for itself.
