Devs tell tales of what happens when you give your game to pirates

“But from an actual stopping of piracy standpoint, it was a misfire,” in part because Android game piracy relies less on torrent sites and more on direct downloads.

“As game developers we can fight piracy with DRM, which—most of the time—is inconvenient for the players who buy the game, and the game itself gets cracked either way.

– TinyBuild’s Alex Nichiporchik, in an email to Kotaku about voluntarily putting a version of one of the company’s games (replete with little pirate outfits) up on torrent sites.