Game Developer Promotes Game on Torrent Sites

Courtesy TorrentFreak  Fri, 11/06/2009 - 16:14

trials2Last summer the gaming company RedLynx decided to market its new game Trials 2 on various BitTorrent sites.

Instead of worrying that the game might end up being pirated, the company decided to upload the bike game themselves as a promotional tool.

“Piracy is here, so how can we take advantage of that? What we did actually, on day one, we put that game immediately on all the torrent networks ourselves,” RedLynx CEO Tero Virtala, told ...

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