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by Natsu 5295 days ago
Maybe "hypocrisy" would be a better word. That said, there are lots of reasons why this doesn't mean that he, personally, is responsible for this and why the information in there may be inaccurate. I believe the HN article on that service had quite a few people pointing out that the results returned by that site were inaccurate. And sites like TPB are known to return false peers, so naively scraping the list of peers is not a good way to see who is downloading what.
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My guess is that it never originated from the actual place, but was spread nonetheless by some people. The point is probably to show that finding the ip is not a reliable indicator. As opposed to the three strike, which is relying almost entirely on identifying someone from his ip, on such places.