The Motion Picture Association of America is always quick to swipe at Google for pointing to a plethora of pirate sites and torrent files via its popular search engine.

Yet a month after the Hollywood studios released a study criticizing Google because 82 percent of all infringing URLs came from Google's search engine, the MPAA is ironically unveiling a pirate's-dream report of its own (.pdf) — one listing the globe's major torrenting sites, cyberlockers and even brick-and-mortar marketplaces.

No, the MPAA hasn't gone to the Dark Side. It is publishing a master list of the major piracy locations in a bid to combat piracy.

The MPAA included the piracy listings — all providing infringing movies, games, software and hard goods — as part of a filing unveiled today with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. The office invited the public last month to supply it with names of "potential Internet and physical notorious markets that exist outside the United States."

The illicit sites are likely to be included next year in the trade office's "Notorious Markets List." With that master list, the United States "encourages the responsible authorities to step up efforts to combat copyright piracy and trademark counterfeiting in these and similar markets."

No reason to fret if your favorite piracy place isn't among the dozens the report lists from Argentina to the United Kingdom.

"This list should not be understood to be comprehensive. It does, however, indicate the scope and scale of global content theft and it introduces some of the ongoing challenges rights holders confront in protecting their intellectual property," according to the MPAA report, signed by Michael O'Leary, an association vice president.

Absent from the MPAA piracy chronicles is IsoHunt. The Canadian-based torrent tracker shuttered last week, ending nearly seven years of litigation with the MPAA.

The most obvious online site in the report was The Pirate Bay which, like most online piracy sites, takes advantage of the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol. Programmer Bram Cohen released the efficient method of transferring files in 2001.