Ubisoft has been accused of selling pirated materials which it itself made as part of the Collector's Edition of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.

The accusation revolves around the soundtrack for the Digital Deluxe Collector's Edition of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, the meta-data of which reveal it to be a torrented version which was encoded by 'Arsa13', rather than Ubisoft.

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http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2011/03/16/ubisoft-pirates-own-soundtrack/1

For a company who is so anti-piracy, they are massive hypocrites. Fail much Ubi?

kind of offtopic but in ubisofts defence...

most companies who are anti piracy use torrents. how else do you think they find your ip? theyre one of the people who youre downloading from

P2P downloading and torrents are two different things.

The fact that Ubisoft is using a random individual's music download file versus a collective of music they purchased an agreement for mass distribution makes no sense as obviously they should own the rights to the use of the music.

The only reasons for this is that either their servers suck so badly that they can't handle farther P2P streams or they only own the rights to the music for ingame use so the additional pack-in for the digital collector's edition actually costs Ubisoft per-download so they are negating responsibility to pay for what they are giving out.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

no... lol... torrents are a protocol for p2p communications

didn't ubisoft also used a Crack to fix one of their games?

I knew I shouldn't have posted this story in the PC section.... lol

we're soon gonna find out that this 'Arsa13' is a Ubisoft employee that encoded the soundtrack at work for the torrent and just used the wrong file when doing his actuall work ^^

And God is dead. :D

Ubisoft and EA killed him?