Filesharing Review > Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 - Available Via BitTorrent, for now

[iBloggedThis] VistaTorrent, created by two “Windows enthusiasts”, Chris and Jake, is the unofficial BitTorrent download site for Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2. The guys at VistaTorrent were able to download the full ISO from Microsoft, and set up a BitTorrent tracker to let others download it, instead of having ordering it.

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http://www.gadget.ca [Gadget.ca, the gadgets blog] Windows Vista Beta 2 Torrented: Now, so far there are many others who have started spreading the file via BitTorrent to get the Vista Beta out there as fast as possible, but you don't know if those have been modified in any way before sending them out. Chris Pirillo and others have joined together to start their own Torrent of the Beta, which you can trust over at www.vistatorrent.com

[Tech.Life.Blogged] Get Windows Vista Beta 2 Via Torrent: As I mentioned the other day, Microsoft is recommending you wait and order the DVD so they don't take down the 'net with Vista downloads. Well now there is a new site called Windows Vista Torrent that you can use to download Vista Beta 2 using BitTorrent.

http://blog.mastermaq.ca [MasterMaq's Blog] Windows Vista Torrent: So fire up your BitTorrent clients and enjoy Vista Beta 2 goodness. Assuming there are no major problems as a result of this site, I'd say its a safe bet that Microsoft will more seriously consider BitTorrent support in the future.

[Archive.scripting.com] Scripting News: 5/3/2006: What's needed are more and better download clients that are tuned for BitTorrent distribution. It's the ideal content for BitTorrent distribution, .

http://scripting.wordpress.com [Scripting.wordpress.com] Scripting News Annex » Next steps for BitTorrent: It would be especially nice if Apple and Microsoft built BitTorrent support into the Macintosh and Windows operating systems, with simple APIs that made it easy for all software running on these two popular platforms to add client and server BitTorrent support. It goes without saying that all popular flavors of Unix should also have easy-to-integrate BitTorrent libraries.

http://blog.monstuff.com [Blog.monstuff.com] Curiosity is bliss: Microsoft and Bittorrent: Also, I read that Bram (Bittorrent creator) now works at Valve, possibly to add P2P to Steam, their content distribution engine (used to [pre-]download and buy games as Half-Life 2). Maybe that will open up the industry to the idea of secure P2P content distribution.

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