We all know that piracy is considered to be a big threat in the gaming industry, however, some developers have started to make use of it to promote their games. RedLynx, the developer of the XBox Live Arcade game, Trials, has made it known that they seeded torrent sites with their game with less features (missing leaderboards). Trials has sold over 150,000 copies and see the exact amount of users on the leaderboards. Though it isn’t known weather or not the game had any effect on sales of Trials, it is definitely a novel way of trying to get people to play their game and perhaps buy it if they enjoy it.

-Stephen