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		darkarmani on April 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PopcornTime official website is back > applications designed for downloading copyrighted content disproportionately tend to contain malware. That used to be true for web browsers but IE got a major update. Now with less drive-bys and exploits.

sirdogealot on April 3, 2014 [–]

eli is referring to the binary downloaded from the website possibly containing malware. Not that the website might possible infect you through a drive-by-download.

darkarmani on April 3, 2014 | [–]

Web browsers are designed to download copyrighted content, so I guess i'm missing his point.

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