Torrent game piracy stats fudged by publishers?

16 May 2013
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  1. Pew
    16.05.2013 at 11:51

    I hope they didn’t base their research on torrents alone since that is a total waste of time. Normally one person downloads using the torrent and then distros the game to everyone else (since there’s no point in everyone downloading the same thing unless you don’t have bandwidth issues). What about the usenet groups, other peer to peer software, piracy groups, straight forward buddy-to-buddy copying, etc?

    Back in the day we had all the latest games, all the time and not a single one of us had internet access either.

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