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Software vendors can deliberately leak "pirated" copies of their programs to Russian torrent sites with backdoors and other malicious code added. That could be an effective countermeasure.

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Are you aware that torret tracker sites are heavily invested in uploader reputation? It doesn't matter if you create a new user to upload a torrent with a backdoor. Nobody is going to download it because it's coming from an untrusted uploader.

How do you prevent that they don't spread to other non russian torrents?

You don't. That's a way to punish all users of pirated software.

Thats still a crime.

You can't rob someones house even if they they are a burgler.

Can a vendor be held responsible for anything an unauthorized pirated copy of their software does?

Can a car manufacturer be held responsible for built-in features designed to maim or kill unauthorised users?

If he put the malware in, yes.

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