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Piracy Sites Make Millions By Installing Malware

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According to a report by the Digital Citizens Alliance, one in three piracy websites contain malware, and distributing it is a estimated $70 million dollar a year business for them.

The DCA's "Digital Bait" study was conducted by RiskIQ and looked at 800 websites that distributed copyrighted material from torrenting networks to streaming hubs. What they found was that users who visited the websites they were monitoring were 28 times more likely to get infections than from the websites in their control group.

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