Miles Jacobson reveals that 10.1 million people have illegally downloaded Football Manager in 2013 after its copy protection was cracked on 12th of May. Whilst the copy protection was circumvented by Italian warez release group CPY, they did not disable the phone home feature of the programme, meaning that Sports Interactive could track the IP addresses of those using Football Manager illegally.
Jacobson discloses that each illegal download does not equal a lost sale, the drop in activations directly after the release of the crack means that he estimates the company lost 176,000 sales, 1.74% of illegal downloads, and representing lost revenues of $3.7million.
This disclosure has discredited researches carried out by the ESA, which claimed that 200 games were being illegaly downloaded by 10 million people each month.
Insights on the country with the highest downloaders were given; China had the highest number with 3.2 million people, While Turkey has 1.05million, and Portugal 781,785. Italy, the home country of the CPY group had 547,000 illegal downloaders, as there was even more from the Vatician.


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