TorrentFreak has posted some statistics on
the most pirated games of the past year. Leading the list by a large margin is
Spore, made infamous
even before its release for the draconian DRM attached to the game. It was downloaded through BitTorrent roughly 1.7 million times, with
The Sims 2 and
Assassin's Creed following at just over a million each. (It's worth noting that
Spore came out in September, so that figure is essentially for a mere three months.) GameSetWatch has posted a related piece discussing the
countermeasures involved in dealing with piracy. It's the second article in a series about piracy; we
discussed the first a couple days ago.