Seems like Introversion's (Uplink, Darwinia) next game Defcon got leaked one week prior to the release of it on Steam, but it doesn't work online without a full payment of $9.95 (pre-order through Steam).But the price is very affordable, and Introversion have and is taking steps to confuse P2P-pirates. So this could likely be a intentional "leak" and work like a s sort of a trial insteadl, to promote it for the release, September 29th.
"We will release a version of our game that looks like it's been hacked at the same time as a pirated version gets out,"Cause mayhem to disrupt illegal downloads, says Introversion
"Our version looks like the real game, but is in fact a demo. After the third time of downloading the demo, the P2P user will be very, very frustrated, and will do one of two things - give up or buy the game from us. We subverted the Bit Torrent network for Darwinia very successfully this way,"
"You can cause mayhem on P2P networks. It's quite fun really and it gets a lot of people talking about your products also."
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