Flushfacker said:
So is it just me or is pirating getting worse for the 360 or have games always been leaked before release? Also how are these releases getting out so early?
MW2 landed early because stores ignored the street date, but the other ones aren't even shipped, so they're all but certainly fake.
Occasionally games get leaked by unhappy employees, or stolen, but that's really rare. As for piracy getting worse, it's not, but publishers and developers are getting ever louder in their coomplaints about it and ever more ham fisted in their attempts to beat it.
Most DRM's don't harm the pirates in the slightest, even Nintendo multi million pound DSi upgrade lasted 12hours before it was busted. The majority of 'anti piracy' measures are designed to increase control over the paying customer, piracy just happens to be the convienient justification.