Remember they listed it as hot cyber thug, NOT hot p2p portal.
With each entry there's a little blurb about it and rolling stone even says in the blurb that the program sucks. Mainly it made the Hot List because the company is based in a Palestinian Refugee camp where international copyright laws don't apply. And the President of ES5 claims that they're going to bring down the etertainment industry.........uh-huh.