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It will likely require some scrolling down to see the bot-driven downloads visible around the middle of the web page.

On what basis is this being attributed to Chinese?

EDIT: When this comment was made, there were 4 torrents with ~300K leeches. At the time of this update, the leecher counts on each all went down to ~150K.

I can’t vouch that all of them are Chinese but the vast majority of them are coming from Chinese IP addresses. They seem to be under C&C and come and go in massive quantities.

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