The combination of SimCity 5's restrictive DRM and The Pirate Bay's vast user base created a perfect storm of piracy. Within days of its release, SimCity 5 had become one of the most pirated games on The Pirate Bay, with thousands of users downloading cracked versions of the game. This piracy surge was not limited to The Pirate Bay; other torrent sites and online forums also reported significant increases in SimCity 5 piracy.
The result was catastrophic.
A top torrent for SimCity 5 included a special (a text file included with cracked games). In it, the cracker wrote: Simcity 5 The Pirate Bayl