Plus they can probably use them to inject malware and god knows what else.

Which imperial power do you suppose it was who quietly took over ThePirateBay and major trackers and now uses them for that exact purpose, as one of their many tools to create botnets that are then used to attack Western sites, helping to drive the adoption of CloudFlare and the like?

Hint: Not Russia.

Hint #2: Not China.

Hint #3: Not North Korea, Iran, or Syria.