Ubisoft Caught Pirating Itself... Again

[Rob Williams]

A couple of years ago, game developer/publisher Ubisoft was caught using BitTorrent to download a crack from one of its games, Tom Clancy's: Rainbow 6 - Vegas 2, and released it as its own "fix". Creative users dug deep, and discovered that this "fix" was in fact coded by a warez scene member, not Ubisoft itself. Since then, the company has kept mum on the occurrence.

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[CaptainFluffy]

Is Ubisoft... promoting piracy?

 

[Kougar]

Totally amusing. Sounds like some employee was simply Uber-lazy perhaps?

 

[Rob Williams]

Is Ubisoft... promoting piracy?

Like Kougar said, I think the thing Ubisoft is promoting is uber-laziness. There's just no excuse for something like this.

 

[TheCrimsonStar]

Epic fail, second time around.

 

[Doomsday]

whaaaatt!!!

 

[OriginalJoeCool]

This is Ubisoft Montreal, right? Maybe I could get a job there and figure out what's going on. I would be your inside man! Definitely weird, though.