Pirates release Xbox 360 version of Mass Effect 2 online

Sad news for Bioware and EA Games, pirates have already found Mass Effect 2 and begun distributing it illegally online. People managed to find a copy of the Xbox 360 version of the game, crack any kind of anti-piracy protection and then share it with millions of internet users. The fact that this happened probably isn’t too surprising in a world where game piracy is a fairly common affair, but Mass Effect 2 isn’t supposed to be out until January 26, 2010.

To give an example of how easy it would be for someone to obtain Mass Effect 2 by illegal means, I plugged the search terms “Mass Effect 2,” “Xbox 360″ and torrent into Google exactly as shown. Out of the first eight results, seven were pages with functioning torrents…