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Title: Ubisoft soundtrack files sourced from pirates
Post by: idolminds on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 08:41:33 PM

Remember, piracy is wrong! (http://www.vg247.com/2011/03/15/report-ubisoft-soundtrack-files-sourced-from-pirates/)

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A Reddit user reported that the MP3 files included with a purchase of the Digital Deluxe Edition have the note “encoded by arsa13″.

This same credit apparently appears on illegal torrents of the Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood soundtrack released by pirates in FLAC form, ripped from the game’s own files.

To join the dots, this suggests that when it came time to bundle the soundtrack for inclusion in the PC edition, an Ubisoft staffer may have converted the pirated files rather than find an official source.

Title: Re: Ubisoft soundtrack files sourced from pirates
Post by: iPPi on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 08:58:55 PM

Haha.  The pirate did all the work so the Ubisoft dude didn't have to.

Title: Re: Ubisoft soundtrack files sourced from pirates
Post by: Cobra951 on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 07:58:30 AM

There's a certain amount of poetic justice here . . . or something.   :P

The pirates earned their keep without knowing, and Ubisoft has staff just as prone to click on easy links as the rest of us.  Oh yeah.

Title: Re: Ubisoft soundtrack files sourced from pirates
Post by: Xessive on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 08:20:10 AM

This isn't the first time we see something like this. Years back, Ubisoft released a NoCD cracked exe (by a group called RELOADED) as a fix for disc issues with Rainbow Six Vegas

Title: Re: Ubisoft soundtrack files sourced from pirates
Post by: MysterD on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 02:37:45 PM

Hilarious.

Title: Re: Ubisoft soundtrack files sourced from pirates
Post by: Cools! on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 03:12:29 PM

lolz!