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StarCraft 2 Popular Among Legitimate P2P Users and Pirates

By james_fudge

You could probably already guess that Blizzard's BitTorrent offering of StarCraft II is pretty popular; after all the game is selling like crazy online and as a digital download. But according to TorrentFreak the game has one other dubious distinction: it is also the most sought after illegal download as well.

According to TorrentFreak, In its first 24 hours after release more than 100,000 copies of the game were downloaded online via peer-to-peer networks. That's good news for Blizzard, but TorrentFreak says that 50,000 people are actively downloading and sharing more than 260,000 copies of the game.

TorrentFreak believes it's possible StarCraft II could be the most popular game downloaded via BitTorrent - both legally and illegally. It is at least the most pirated game software title of 2010: Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 10, 2010 (boomark / email).