Today, Microsoft announced Global Anti-Piracy Day, to draw attention to the ever growing piracy problem. While Microsoft itself celebrates October 21st by launching anti-piracy enforcement actions in 49 countries, The Pirate Bay does so by linking to counterfeit Microsoft products on their frontpage – in every country in the world.
Microsoft is a large corporation, and most large corporations distrust everything to do with filesharing. What they don’t realise is how much they stand to gain from from filesharing networks, in paticular, BitTorrent.
Mirosoft gave the guys behind vistatorrent.com a framed version of the cease and desist letter that took down their site. Although the demand for Microsoft’s second Vista Beta is extremely high, Microsoft refused to release a torrent for “security” reasons. At the Gnomedex conference Chris Pirillo, one of the organizers, and the initiator of vistatorrent.com [...]
The demand for Microsoft’s second Vista Beta is so high that they have to limit the bandwidth to prevent the internet from collapsing (not my words). However, they can’t release it over BitTorrent for some vague reason. At least, according to a chat Chris Pirillo had with MS Mindshare Manager Aaron Coldiron. Coldiron said: We [...]
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