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[Jimmc414]

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

[eric__cartman → Jimmc414]

I would take that as a list of 82 sites to avoid when looking for pirated software.

[judge2020 → eric__cartman]

It's mainly a list of pirate bay sites and proxies. Why would their inclusion in this blocklist be a reason to avoid them?

[akiselev → judge2020]

That 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