I just love it when my biases are validated by empirical evidence. Do you guys remember Ubisoft? It’s a French company that publishes games. I don’t know about you, but I’m currently boycotting them for their asinine antics. In particular they are in the habit of horribly mistreating their customers. Most people probably imagine Ubi to be one of those tightly run, military-style corporations that don’t tolerate any kind of inaccuracy or lack of discipline. This must be why they are so hell bent on using intrusive and damaging DRM schemes, and making ridiculous statements about piracy.

Well, guess what, this perception is wrong. There was this one episode when they patched one of their games (Rainbow Six Vegas 2) with an illegal third-party No-CD crack. It didn’t get much publicity, but it happened. Now they’ve outdone themselves yet again. Their game Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood happens to have a Digital Deluxe version. And that version happens to have music in the form of MP3s. And those MP3s happen to originate from some pirate who put them up as a torrent. Make no mistake, this is still Ubi’s own music. They just included a pirated version of it with their game. This is the company which claims huge damages from piracy, and “leads” the fight against it. Do what you will, but I’m continuing my boycott.