I don't know, it looks pretty decentralised to me?

>The purpose of this list is to allow IPFS node operators (e.g. someone running a public IPFS gateway) to opt into not hosting previously flagged content.

IPFS node operators, who are supposedly interested in hosting malicious content (and i2p-hosted phishings are a real problem) can OPT INTO using this list.

In this case, I don't see how that's any problem for piracy - people can just use one of the bad/unfiltered nodes.

The fact that it's entirely binary, and they don't separate someone copying books from malware isn't helping that argument.

Well, badbits are only enforced on the centralized http gateways. LibGen CIDs would still resolve fine using the DHT as the decentralised discovery mechanism