Ubisoft is now taking steps to distance itself from the warez community by going after an OEM for leaking a game on the internet.

gamespot is reporting that Last month, Ubisoft filed suit against Charlotte, North Carolina-based Optical Experts Manufacturing, the company it had contracted to reproduce copies of the game disc. The publisher alleges that "an extraordinary breach of trust and gross negligence" on the part of OEM allowed one of the company's employees to take a copy of the game home early and post it on the Internet in late February, six weeks before the game arrived in stores.

The article says that Ubisoft tracked the leak to one of the employees of the OEM, at his house! A copy of the game was also found at this person's house.

According to the industry-tracking NPD Group, the PC edition of the game sold more than 40,000 copies at US retailers through June. Ubisoft claims the leaked edition of the game was downloaded more than 700,000 times, costing the publisher millions of dollars.

According to nforce, the leaked copy was infact not working as it was missing levels. The groups that released it then re-released a new version on the internet - after the retail version of the game in stores.