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The Los Angeles Times reported today that Batman: Arkham Asylum has already sold 2 million units - in less than a month. The figure does not include sales of the PC port, which is due on September 15. That's what happens when marvelous Metacritic marks meet massive marketing monies.

On 1UP.com, the first murmur of piracy (of the PC version, of course) is already to be heard:

According to MaxConsole, user Cheshirec_the_cat wrote on the Eidos Forums, "I've got a problem when it's time to use Batman's glide in the game. When I hold "," like it's said to jump from one platform to another, Batman tries to open his wings again and again instead of gliding. So he fels down in a poisoning gas. If somebody could tel me, what should I do there.

After another user reminded Chesirec that Arkham Asylum isn't even available on the PC yet, administrator Keir took the time to explain the problem.

"The problem you have encountered is a hook in the copy protection, to catch out people who try and download cracked versions of the game for free," he wrote.

"It's not a bug in the game's code, it's a bug in your moral code."

At least this DRM only breaks your game.