Weather its official or not both the 64 & X86 versions are on bit
torrent, not fully seeded yet but growing.

You can get a download via torrent it will be a lot faster than
waiting for MS overloaded servers to crank it out for you.

In fact why did MS not seed it in the first place? Far more efficient
way of distributing the public beta and it was bound to end up there
anyway.

http://www.torrentspy.com/

Search for "Windows Vista Beta"



8-)

Jonah

Not a good idea.

> Weather its official or not both the 64 & X86 versions are on bit
> torrent, not fully seeded yet but growing.
>
> You can get a download via torrent it will be a lot faster than
> waiting for MS overloaded servers to crank it out for you.
>
> In fact why did MS not seed it in the first place? Far more efficient
> way of distributing the public beta and it was bound to end up there
> anyway.
>
> http://www.torrentspy.com/
>
> Search for "Windows Vista Beta"
>
> 8-)
>
> Jonah
>

Why is it not a good idea?

"Tom Ziegmann" wrote:

> Not a good idea.
>
> > Weather its official or not both the 64 & X86 versions are on bit
> > torrent, not fully seeded yet but growing.
> >
> > You can get a download via torrent it will be a lot faster than
> > waiting for MS overloaded servers to crank it out for you.
> >
> > In fact why did MS not seed it in the first place? Far more efficient
> > way of distributing the public beta and it was bound to end up there
> > anyway.
> >
> > http://www.torrentspy.com/
> >
> > Search for "Windows Vista Beta"
> >
> > 8-)
> >
> > Jonah
> >
>
>
>

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 23:18:56 +0000 (UTC), Tom Ziegmann
<taziegmann@cox.net> wrote:

>Not a good idea.

Go on why not? I get all my Linux Distros from torrents its just
efficient. I am not blindly going to stick it in a running PC it goes
on a DMZ test box first to check it out. I got the legit key from MS
if I want to risk a torrent file then its up to me. Its an alternative
to waiting days for a dl to start.
>
>> Weather its official or not both the 64 & X86 versions are on bit
>> torrent, not fully seeded yet but growing.
>>
>> You can get a download via torrent it will be a lot faster than
>> waiting for MS overloaded servers to crank it out for you.
>>
>> In fact why did MS not seed it in the first place? Far more efficient
>> way of distributing the public beta and it was bound to end up there
>> anyway.
>>
>> http://www.torrentspy.com/
>>
>> Search for "Windows Vista Beta"
>>
>> 8-)
>>
>> Jonah
>>
>

For real I understand that this brings it out to a lot of "unauthorized
users", but its gonna happen. why not appear to be a great guy to the
faithful ones of us and probably shake some headlines at the same time. If
need be throw some .Net authentication up in the tracker I dont care. It just
kinda sucks that i have to resort to torrenting from the dark side But at
least we know its release is going well so far if its beating estimated
(allotted) bandwith.

drew g

"jonah" wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 23:18:56 +0000 (UTC), Tom Ziegmann
> <taziegmann@cox.net> wrote:
>
> >Not a good idea.
>
> Go on why not? I get all my Linux Distros from torrents its just
> efficient. I am not blindly going to stick it in a running PC it goes
> on a DMZ test box first to check it out. I got the legit key from MS
> if I want to risk a torrent file then its up to me. Its an alternative
> to waiting days for a dl to start.
> >
> >> Weather its official or not both the 64 & X86 versions are on bit
> >> torrent, not fully seeded yet but growing.
> >>
> >> You can get a download via torrent it will be a lot faster than
> >> waiting for MS overloaded servers to crank it out for you.
> >>
> >> In fact why did MS not seed it in the first place? Far more efficient
> >> way of distributing the public beta and it was bound to end up there
> >> anyway.
> >>
> >> http://www.torrentspy.com/
> >>
> >> Search for "Windows Vista Beta"
> >>
> >> 8-)
> >>
> >> Jonah
> >>
> >
>
>

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:44:02 -0700, werD
<werD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>For real I understand that this brings it out to a lot of "unauthorized
>users", but its gonna happen. why not appear to be a great guy to the
>faithful ones of us and probably shake some headlines at the same time. If
>need be throw some .Net authentication up in the tracker I dont care. It just
>kinda sucks that i have to resort to torrenting from the dark side But at
>least we know its release is going well so far if its beating estimated
>(allotted) bandwith.
>
>drew g
>
>"jonah" wrote:
>
snip

MS could not even with their resources meet global demand on thier own
servers. Demand is obviously huge and BT is the obvious solution plus
its a totally legit use of bit torrent. We are not downloading the
latest episode of the Sopranos, its a Public Beta. So where is the
problem?

Get the key the legit way then get your copy down any way you can,
nobody is doing anything wrong. In fact taking the load of MS servers
is probably doing them a favour.

Mind you thats not a good idea in itself 8-)

Jonah

Guys - as long as the MD5 checksum of the file verifies the one on my site -
it's a true genuine ISO.
Option 3 ) http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?getstarted

(oh, thanks to Andre of course)

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--: Original message follows :--
"passonno" <passonno@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C75E9367-2606-403C-89E9-453F4940BD3E@microsoft.com...
> Why is it not a good idea?
>
> "Tom Ziegmann" wrote:
>
>> Not a good idea.
>>
>> > Weather its official or not both the 64 & X86 versions are on bit
>> > torrent, not fully seeded yet but growing.
>> >
>> > You can get a download via torrent it will be a lot faster than
>> > waiting for MS overloaded servers to crank it out for you.
>> >
>> > In fact why did MS not seed it in the first place? Far more efficient
>> > way of distributing the public beta and it was bound to end up there
>> > anyway.
>> >
>> > http://www.torrentspy.com/
>> >
>> > Search for "Windows Vista Beta"
>> >
>> > 8-)
>> >
>> > Jonah
>> >
>>
>>
>>

I have talked about this again and again... MS will probably use torrent too
in the future...

but there are some people in here that have artiosckyrosis in their brain



"jonah" <jonah123@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:vrdh8250otq7r265ohes14v6aga63c1rd4@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:44:02 -0700, werD
> <werD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>For real I understand that this brings it out to a lot of "unauthorized
>>users", but its gonna happen. why not appear to be a great guy to the
>>faithful ones of us and probably shake some headlines at the same time. If
>>need be throw some .Net authentication up in the tracker I dont care. It
>>just
>>kinda sucks that i have to resort to torrenting from the dark side But
>>at
>>least we know its release is going well so far if its beating estimated
>>(allotted) bandwith.
>>
>>drew g
>>
>>"jonah" wrote:
>>
> snip
>
> MS could not even with their resources meet global demand on thier own
> servers. Demand is obviously huge and BT is the obvious solution plus
> its a totally legit use of bit torrent. We are not downloading the
> latest episode of the Sopranos, its a Public Beta. So where is the
> problem?
>
> Get the key the legit way then get your copy down any way you can,
> nobody is doing anything wrong. In fact taking the load of MS servers
> is probably doing them a favour.
>
> Mind you thats not a good idea in itself 8-)
>
> Jonah

What i mean is that those people that have already put it on BT its not a
good idea. 1. It is copyrighed material and 2. What's the point? You still
have to get a product key from the MS website.

> Not a good idea.
>
>> Weather its official or not both the 64 & X86 versions are on bit
>> torrent, not fully seeded yet but growing.
>>
>> You can get a download via torrent it will be a lot faster than
>> waiting for MS overloaded servers to crank it out for you.
>>
>> In fact why did MS not seed it in the first place? Far more efficient
>> way of distributing the public beta and it was bound to end up there
>> anyway.
>>
>> http://www.torrentspy.com/
>>
>> Search for "Windows Vista Beta"
>>
>> 8-)
>>
>> Jonah
>>

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 01:04:05 +0000 (UTC), Tom Ziegmann <taziegmann@cox.net>
wrote:

>What i mean is that those people that have already put it on BT its not a
>good idea. 1. It is copyrighed material and 2. What's the point? You still
>have to get a product key from the MS website.

The point is you could potentially download it faster via bittorrent and
not deal with the slow MS servers.
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