{"id":65051,"date":"2014-05-26T15:31:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T13:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=65051"},"modified":"2014-05-26T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T13:44:07","slug":"watch-dogs-tops-torrent-sites-heavily-pirated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/65051-watch-dogs-tops-torrent-sites-heavily-pirated","title":{"rendered":"Watch Dogs tops torrent sites, heavily pirated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/64953-watch-dogs-all-the-details.html\">Watch Dogs<\/a> is proving popular with more than just\u00a0the gaming media\u00a0&#8211; the new title from Ubisoft is topping most torrent sites in terms of highest seeded files.<\/p>\n<p>A quick look at some of the more popular torrent sites revealed that the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 versions of the game were being seeded and leeched the most in the games category, beating its rivals by a large margin.<\/p>\n<p>As we state in the all our <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/64633-the-most-pirated-pc-games-at-the-moment.html\">articles that focus on piracy<\/a>:\u00a0if you are illegally downloading or sharing a game, you are hurting the gaming industry. While it is sad to see a title being pirated pre-launch, it is an indication of the game&#8217;s popularity, and hopefully a sign it will do well in the sales charts.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the torrent sites where Watch Dogs featured strongly. We show the game&#8217;s ranking on each site\u00a0according to platform category.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">KickassTorrents<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Xbox 360 &#8211; Most seeded<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 3 &#8211; Most seeded<\/li>\n<li>PC &#8211; 6th most seeded<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The Pirate Bay<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Xbox 360 &#8211; Most seeded<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 3 &#8211; Most seeded<\/li>\n<li>PC &#8211; 2nd most seeded<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Torrentz<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Xbox 360 &#8211; Most seeded<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 3 &#8211; Most seeded<\/li>\n<li>PC &#8211; 2nd most seeded<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Torlock<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>PC &#8211; 5th most seeded<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Extra Torrent<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>PC &#8211; Most seeded<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ulFeUCAI5xM?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/64615-video-games-that-became-tv-shows.html\">Video games that became TV shows<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64691-eve-online-the-space-opera-perspective.html\">Eve Online \u2013 the space opera perspective<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64739-wasteland-2-gets-release-date.html\">Wasteland 2 gets release date<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the launch of Watch Dogs less than 24 hours away, gaming pirates are taking full advantage of leaked copies of the game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":65053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2219,101,10012,733,4771],"class_list":["post-65051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-megarom","tag-piracy","tag-torrent","tag-ubisoft","tag-watch-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}