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[โ€“] alessandro@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Chinese pirated copies in internet cafe for shady activities: usually Valve fixed this data in the coming days/hours. But I think it's nice to have a snapshot: a sudden motion of 30% would technically mean a sudden switch of millions of customers (or a bunch bot machines well placed)

[โ€“] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 points 3 days ago

The bots would make sense, too, a Chinese cyberattack last year took Steam and other online publishers down for a couple of hours using a compromised router botnet.