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Originally posted by CookieRevised
There is also the factor that whenever an official torrent is available, people _will_ attempt (and succeed) in creating fakes, just to countradict it, thus increasing the number of fakes. And the users will not know that those are fake.
And then the faker will publish that fake to a link-repository (no faker is famous enough to have people visiting their site and downloading fakes, at least that I knew). After that some people will download and will probably notice it (say... after seing an old version or a virus). Those will report that file/hash to the website that published that. If the webmasters are honest, they'll remove the link, if not, they won't. However, if I as Messenger user want to download something about messenger I'll go to mess.be and related sites. Their webmasters won't put up a fake, because it will cause a lot of criticism and the visitors will decrease. They will most probably put the original torrent.
But still: fakers can upload the faked file and pretend they are mirroring Messenger Plus! in w/e communities/channels. Fakes find their way to the surface any way, the only way to avoid it is to use common sense (visiting famous messenger related sites and/or the official site) to find trustworthy sources.
However, and I repeat, I don't support the idea anyway.
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