p2pnet - rss feed: Microsoft vs Vista Torrent
p2p news / p2pnet: Vistatorrent.com received the well known “cease and desist” letter from Microsoft. Apparently they are still planning to take down the internet.
Although the demand for Microsoft’s second Vista Beta is extremely high, Microsoft refused to release a torrent. They stated:
There are legal and privacy issues which unfortunately make that not an option for Microsoft to officially sponsor a BitTorrent.
In a response to this, vistatorrent.com and bittorrent.com created a torrent for the popular download, but although it saves Microsoft some bandwidth, they don’t like it.
Vistatorrent.com just removed the torrent, but there’s still a copy on bittorrent.com (update: bittorrent.com removed the torrent).
Probably not for long so here’s a picture (right) …
Torrentfreak - TheNetherlands
June 17th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
Just have a look around and you will find them easily
June 18th, 2006 at 12:03 am
http://isohunt.com/torrents.php?ihq=windows+vista+beta+2&ext=&op=and
June 18th, 2006 at 2:10 am
June 18th, 2006 at 10:00 am
well if you are dumb enough to wanta drm laced OS and do microsoft’s beta testing for them - you got to wonder about the level of intelligence of some users out there!
June 18th, 2006 at 10:01 am
“There are legal and privacy issues which unfortunately make that not an option for Microsoft to officially sponsor a BitTorrent.”
‘A’ BitTorrent? BitTorrent is a technology, not some widget that can be subjected to quantification, like popsicles or websites.
Here again, we see another corporate behemoth that doesn’t get it, nor doesn’t even seem to comprehend the available technologies in the domain they are supposedly the dominant force in. What am I not surprised?
June 19th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
I get much higher transfer speeds from microsoft’s site vs bittorrent anyway. Why would I want to upload Vista while downloading when I can just download it straight from MS.
June 20th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
“Why would I want to upload Vista while downloading when I can just download it straight from MS.”
Why would you want vista .. at all ?
Why would anyone ?
Stockpile your old hardware and software.
Very soon, it will be worth a fortune