{"id":8555,"date":"2010-11-16T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T08:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"starcraft-ii-breaks-torrent-download-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/8555-starcraft-ii-breaks-torrent-download-record","title":{"rendered":"StarCraft II breaks torrent download record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently not even a 93 Metacritic average and pretty much universal critics&rsquo; acclaim can persuade some people to part with their cash &ndash; in the three months since launch, StarCraft II has been downloaded 2.3 million times over torrent networks, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/5-torrent-files-that-broke-mind-boggling-records-101107\/\" target=\"_blank\">Torrent Freak<\/a>. Coming in at a chunky 7.19 GB download, this accounts for a gargantuan 15.77 petabytes &ndash; or almost 16 quadrillion bytes &#8211; of total data transfer, making it the somewhat egregious #1 title holder in this category. It&rsquo;s almost impressive, except it&rsquo;s just a dismal indictment of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>To put it into some comparative perspective, the Large Hadron Collider &ndash; you know, the world&rsquo;s largest particle accelerator, currently tasked with solving some of the most fundamental physics problems of the universe &#8211; produces approximately 15 petabytes of data in an entire year. StarCraft II is approximately four times more popular than dark matter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And that doesn&rsquo;t even include copies acquired over LAN or other networks. What&rsquo;s more, because Blizzard also uses its own legitimate BitTorrent downloader to distribute the game digitally, the real total must surely be significantly larger.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/9409-StarCraft-II-break-torren-download-record-for-first-3-months?p=326305#post326305\" target=\"_self\">Discuss StarCraft II<\/a> and piracy in the forums<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three months, 2.3 million downloads, 15.77 petabytes moved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}