Wow. This is a VERY poorly done study.

1. It treats people who have both registered and installed gameshadow AND agreed to allow the program to collect their data as a representative sample.

2. Being that there are only 1.21 million gameshadow users according to their own website, I can't imagine the sample size was very large. Remember out of those 1.21 million this only includes people who have Crysis on their computer in some form AND have agreed to let it collect their data. I can't imagine the sample size was greater than a few hundred.

Now personally I can't imagine most hardcore PC gamers would sign up for something like Gameshadow - not the people with machines than can run Crysis. I think most hardcore gamers are capable of downloading their own patches without having annoying software that runs in the background. This is relevant because I think hardcore gamers are the more likely pirates.

Another factor is that I believe people who would pirate Crysis probably are more likely to pirate other games. The last thing that someone like this would want is a program that is constantly trying to install retail patches on all your games.

In short this article is extremely flawed and it's conclusions are unjustified.