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

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-...