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PC game piracy is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, issue in the game industry. Fighting illegal piracy of such games overseas has been extremely difficult. The game trade group the Entertainment Software Association recently took part in a new study of piracy of games and other media outside the US by the International Intellectual Property Alliance.

The annual study of piracy revealed that in December 2008 the ESA did research into how many illegal copies of 13 unnamed games were distributed via the BitTorrent and EDonkey file sharing networks. The ESA claims that 6,429,279 copies of those 13 games were downloaded via those two networks for that month. Just the two most popular games accounted for 4,787,441 copies of the total amount. Users in Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Poland were the countries that accounted for the most downloads.