[Fice]

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.

[hypertele-Xii]

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.

[croes]

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

[Fice]

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

[ClumsyPilot]

Thats still a crime.

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

[Fice]

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

[eurasiantiger]

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

[croes]

If he put the malware in, yes.