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  • The Pirate Bay Added A CPU-Hijacking Bitcoin Miner To Some Pages

    Tom McKay

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    A meeting of the German Pirate Party in Berlin in 2013. Photo: Getty Images File-sharing websites are not exactly known for their sterling reputation, though a few such as famed torrent site the Pirate Bay have been around for long enough while generally avoiding shady behaviour they have acquired a certain cachet with the internet…