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The irony is that by adding these 82 pirate sites to the hosts file and having this action publicized, the malware writers are inadvertently promoting a list of
by Jimmc414 5y ago
The irony is that by adding these 82 pirate sites to the hosts file and having this action publicized, the malware writers are inadvertently promoting a list of 82 sites where users can download pirated software.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
- eric__cartman 5y agoI would take that as a list of 82 sites to avoid when looking for pirated software.
- judge2020 5y agoIt's mainly a list of pirate bay sites and proxies. Why would their inclusion in this blocklist be a reason to avoid them?
- akiselev 5y agoThat list of URLs is the torrent tracker equivalent of blog spam. It contains none of the big private trackers that are trivial to join or the big public ones like rutracker or rarbg There's an entire wikipedia article listing them! [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_sites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_sites