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[JayDee]

Sounds more like a plug for the company.

3 games out, non of them major. (although uplink got its fanbase with me included)

[Adam6]

Hmm well most torrent sites have a comments section where people can comment on the torrent so once somebody downloads it and finds its a fake then everybody will stay clear of it......

[MN-Mod-Man]

    What a joke, spend more money time and resources to attempt to foil pirates...GET REAL, while I don't condone piracy, this NEVER works, ask EMINEM.

[jxoxn21]

LOL This is hysterical. All you have to do is read the comments, the people who have downloaded it already will say if its fake or not. The smart downloaders will know whats real and whats not.    

[ILLusions0fGrander]

music groups have released fakes in the past.. doesnt stop anything..

i remember getting a metallica CD download, each song was just a repeat of a 30 second loop

[Heet]

Um....you can make comments and say "hey guys this is bs, dont bother".



Dumb.  But just shows how out of touch they are.

[gehx]

what a fucking joke man!  Viva Usenet & Newzbin!!    Plus, how many priates do you know that give up!!??

They might as well as included this in their press release

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[R-Dawggy Dawg]

AWWW... too bad for all the FREE sources.. but its not like they're gonna f*&k with newsgroups and such that people pay for......no way someone is gonna post that nonsense.

[Textbook]

The best weapon against piracy is making it free in the first place.

[EnergySurge]

All I have to say is people will just move over to Usenet  but n00bs won't know how to do fuck all

[v1p3r]

They should register tons of accounts on the major sites and say that all the releases are the fake one

Go introversion!

[twistedsymphony]

It's an interesting idea to thwart torrent piracy, it's got some holes as other people have mentioned. Not to mention some people who pirate a lot tend to get familiar with different pirate release groups and if a download isn't tagged with their favorite group's name then they'll probably steer clear or at least raise some eyebrows and ask questions before snatching it.

A more advanced method might be to have a server act as a seeder for an already released "real" version of the game and simply Seed corrupt data, if they give it some good bandwidth and make it look like they're seeding the whole thing I'm sure all the torrent clients would leach from it like moths to a flame but of course they would be just spinning their wheels because every packet would fail CRC and try again... it wouldn't stop it completely but it would probably slow down the process to a snails crawl. And unless you could determine who exactly was sending you the bung data it'd be hard to stop.

Then again that might only work on public trackers.

[Lord Serebi]

that last xbox360 game you backed up wasn't a demo, nuff said.

[sebas74]

Whoehahahahahaha, this is just bad advertising for themselves! Who the hell believes this? If this is the "security" they will provide... they will stop existing next week. As we say in the Netherlands: "stelletje lutsers, ga eens deaud!"

[sgr215]

They must think we're all idiots. Not only will it not do anything it'll take away valuable time from Introversion that could have been used in a more productive manner. (I.E. Creating a decent game)