How

How do people get a hold of games like vice city before they come out and put them on emule and bittorent?

anyone know?

Good question... I have no idea. :blink:

Anyone know?

Some of them might be beta copies. Depending on the company, some of them go outside for beta-testers. Although beta-testers are usually forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement, so if they are rogue beta-testers, when they get found out, they'll get in Real Big Trouble.

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It's because of the warez groups, they are competing which of them has a new release 1st.
Just for the sports of that. It is often not their goal to spread them on the web.
That's a spin off and just makes their names bigger...

We're all just benefitting of that... :D
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Edit, to do that they try all in their power; bribary, theft, hacking, cracking,

just for the sports... :lol:

And if you read the nfos

if you are part of a game company etc...

because some games are released in other countrys 1st this gives people a head start on cracking it and it doesnt take anybody that long to rip a game

so i guess the doom3 beta tester is in sum deep sh!t then hahahaha

the time for a game to come from the production line to the shop floor is a week or more, someone working in the factory could easily just slip a CD into his pocket, or toss it out the window to his mate