This story is an important development in piracy, but it also portends an increase in malware infections from more people seeking pirated content from any available source. There has always been and will always be a strong connection between pirated software, music, movies, etc. and malware droppers that turn systems into proxies or worse. And pirated products remain a major source of malware infections.

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