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Why aren't they using bittorrent?

• jhancock 18y ago
  I'm sure their legal team has solid justifications for it. What happens if you can grab it from torrent? There is no agreement between you and Microsoft that you do not own the product or have other rights. The firmly accepted way have a legal agreement is to get an agreement. So no torrent.
  • snprbob86 18y ago
    Maybe, but I think the bigger issue is that the left hand doesn't know what the right one is doing. Microsoft has a viable bit torrent surrogate which would allow them to force a EULA up front: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_Intelligent_Transfer_Service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_Intelligent_Transfer... "Version 3.0 (November 2007) Adds peer caching which allows users to download content from peers and also serve content to peers [...]"
• chrisbolt 18y ago
  Why aren't they using a CDN?
• Zev 18y ago
  When Vista's beta came out, MS ran into the same problems. So someone put up a torrent of the iso (On legaltorrents.com i think) and linked to MS's site saying to go there for serials and to file bugs. MS still sent the legal team after it to have the torrent shut down fairly quickly. Interesting sidenote: Microsoft's research labs made a "Bittorrent Simulator" - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/20d68689-9a8d-44c0-80cd-66dfa4b0504b/default.aspx http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/20d68689-9a8d-...