For a game that has been recieving such a backlash for its restrictive DRM, Maxis will be sad to hear that Spore is set to be the most pirated title of all time.
According to Torrent Freak news service, Spore has been downloaded at rates unseen by any other game since P2P stats were being measured. More than 500,000 copies of the game have been downloaded to date, and within two weeks it seems very likely that Spore will become the most pirated game ever downloaded with BitTorrent. For comparison's sake, the popular Crysis game has been download 420,000 since its release in November of 2007.
The Sims 2 currently has the title of most-pirated game ever on the world's largest BitTorrent tracker.
The situation for Spore was not helped by a pirated copy of the game turning up almost a full week before its official release. Furthermore, ironically, many people have claimed to download the game instead of purchasing it, because of the game's DRM. How many of these people would've actually bought the game, DRM or otherwise, is impossible to know -- but this situation at least shows that this game's DRM did extremely little to prevent the game's piracy.
