Pirates are getting an early jump on Sims 3. With several days still to go before the title hits retailers, Bloomberg (via GameDaily) is reporting that it"s been downloaded 180,000 times between May 18 and 21. And it"s it not even the finished version.

"The pirated version is a buggy, pre-final build of the game," said Electronic Arts representative Holly Rockwood. "It"s not the full game. Half the world -- an entire city -- is missing from the pirated copy."

These numbers come courtesy of BigChampagne, a company that monitors file sharing. They outpace even Spore, which was downloaded 400,000 times over the course of three weeks and eventually went on to be the most pirated game of 2008. The high download numbers were attributed to Spore"s digital rights management software, which is absent in Sims 3.