Badie05
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Ubisoft sues over Assassin's Creed leakPublisher believes disc replication firm responsible for 700,000 pirated pre-release downloads of its PC action game.
Ubisoft's hit action game Assassin's Creed was released on the PC in April, but in appropriately Altair-like fashion, a pirated version of the game sneaked onto the Internet two months earlier. Obviously unhappy with the leak, the publisher has decided to take the matter to court and make someone pay.
Ubisoft said it tracked the earliest connections to the pirated copy of the game online and found that they were coming from the home of an OEM employee. An OEM-manufactured copy of the game was later found at the employee's residence, though the suit doesn't specify when that copy was found.
According to the industry-tracking NPD Group, the PC edition of the game sold more than 40,000 copies at US retailers through June. Ubisoft claims the leaked edition of the game was downloaded more than 700,000 times, costing the publisher millions of dollars.
Ubisoft is suing OEM for copyright infringement, breach of contract, negligence. It is asking for damages and legal fees relating to all three claims, in the amount of no less than $10 million each for the breach of contract and negligence claims.
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Phatkav
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Wow. 700,000 units pirated and only 40,000 units sold? Guess Crytek was right when they said for every copy of Crysis sold, there was 20 copies pirated.
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Badie05
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Yes....this should just calm to a halt. I wouldn't mind if PC piracy was like console piracy. Only the smart people know and the rest are in the shadows. Unfortunately everyone knows and the PC is quite easy for that.
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Phatkav
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Seriously. A simple google search and BAM.
Does that mean PC isn't getting the new Prince of Persia? Or did the article miss the aprt where Ubisoft made money off their port?
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Badie05
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They did make money and as far as we know Prince of Persia IS coming to the PC.
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HungryHungryHippo
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Wow, I didn't realize there was a 17:1 ratio for pirating O_o
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Phatkav
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20:1 was the case with Crysis.
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