Ubisoft Sues Company Over Assassin’s Creed Leak

Gamespot reports that Ubisoft is suing Optical Experts Manufacturing, who they allege had leaked a copy of Assassin’s Creed on the Internet. The publisher is saying that one of the employees of the Charlotte, North Carolina-based disc replication company got a copy of the game and proceeded to release it onto peer-to-peer networks.

The article also discloses that the PC version of the game sold only 40,000 copies in the US through june, but that over 700,000 pirated copies of the game were downloaded. It also relates an odd-sounding claim that Ubisoft intentionally crippled the game by putting a bug in the code that would crash the game as a security measure, and that negative reviews of the buggy leaked version harmed their reputation.

Ubisoft is asking for over $20 million in damages and legal fees.