Windows Vista BitTorrent Tracker

Never one to sit idly by, Chris and his business partner Jake Ludington took the bull by the horns (no Longhorn joke intended) and created VistaTorrent.com , seeding it with an official copy of the 3.1 gigabyte Vista download. Chris announced this on Sunday evening. If you’ve never used BitTorrent before, I should explain a few terms at this point. BitTorrent is a protocol which makes peer-to-peer file transfer simple and efficient. In the old days (before BitTorrent) file transfer took

Filed under today’s cut-off-my-nose-to-spite-my-face section is Microsoft’s official DMCA Take-Down notice sent out toChris Pirillo, and Jake Ludington over their Vistatorrent website. As you recall Chris and Jake were offering their own bandwidth to shoulder some of the burden of getting Microsoft’s next generation Windows Vista beta (2) out to more people, more quickly (see a

Written by Mozilla on June 12th, 2006 with no comments. Read more articles on Autosurf Alert!. Chris Pirillo [IMG more] [IMG xml] [IMG hide] last updated: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:30:21 GMTSun, 11 Jun 2006 23:46:52 +0000 Windows Vista BitTorrent Tracker Okay, we’ve done it: VistaTorrent.com… Okay, we’ve done it: VistaTorrent.com. I’ve set this up with Jake Ludington, so that (a) people can use BitTorrent to download Windows Vista Beta 2, as they

Never one to sit idly by, Chris and his business partner Jake Ludington took the bull by the horns (no Longhorn joke intended) and created VistaTorrent.com , seeding it with an official copy of the 3.1 gigabyte Vista download. Chris announced this on Sunday evening. If you’ve never used BitTorrent before, I should explain a few terms at this point. BitTorrent is a protocol which makes peer-to-peer file transfer simple and efficient. In the old days (before BitTorrent) file transfer took

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tendency to write things on his chest, and more. I don’t know Chris myself, but I joined his “FatBlasters” mailing list awhile ago as part of my ongoing quest to lose weight… and also as a way to get emails from Chris in my Inbox every few days :)Oooh, just noticed he has a Torrent setup for Vista as well, cool stuff

Microsoft wouldn’t do it, soChris Pirillo & Jake Luddington did. I think this is a great thing for the community, and we’re providing a dedicated seeder for the effort. You can check out the tracker at vistatorrent.com.[IMG]

to officially sponsor a BitTorrent. I really wish we could do it, but we can’t. If someone [seeds or downloads a torrent] we can’t guarantee that they’ve got an unaltered copy, etc. So what did Chris Pirillo and a friend do? They offered atorrent tracker of Vista for public download. By offeing this torrent Chris was helping Microsoft by allowing people to download Vista via a torrent instead of directly from Microsoft, or spending $10 to order a DVD of the Beta build.

to officially sponsor a BitTorrent. I really wish we could do it, but we can’t. If someone [seeds or downloads a torrent] we can’t guarantee that they’ve got an unaltered copy, etc. So what did Chris Pirillo and a friend do? They offered atorrent tracker of Vista for public download. By offeing this torrent Chris was helping Microsoft by allowing people to download Vista via a torrent instead of directly from Microsoft, or spending $10 to order a DVD of the Beta build.

[IMG Collapse] [Longhornblogs.com] Windows Vista Beta 2 BitTorrent Tracker Posted By: hamesh @ Jun 11 2006, 10:43 PM Microsoft wouldn’t do it, soChris Pirillo & Jake Luddington did. I think this is a great thing for the community, and we’re providing a dedicated seeder for the effort. You can check out the tracker at vistatorrent.com.[IMG] more] Comments: 0 :: View Comments

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I recognize the need for a torrent (thank god), but it’s been featured on bittorrent.com for awhile now.

I just grabbed your torrent and linked it to my already downloaded ISO–so everyone has one additional source to seed from. I’ve rate limited my connection to 1 mbit/s; should be sufficient to get other people setup and seeding.

Todd

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I salute you for that effort, Chris! This shows that you are true pro-active Microsoft supporter like myself. I wish I could do similar thing and for example publish all Microsoft webcasts as podcasts (Micrsosoft still doesn’t want to do it) on my site – but I am afraid that Microsoft wouldn’t like it.

Anyway: big thank you!

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Thanks Chris. I wanted to try Vista, yet the download link from M$ never worked. (Or worked too slow)

Thanks Again,
Ed

Any chance of you torrenting the 64-bit version??

TIA,
Steve

Get Windows Vista Beta 2 Via Torrent…

I told you this would be done sooner or later.
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 y…

Awesome, Chris. Keep up the great work. Microsoft should hire you as the next ‘Robert Scoble’.

See ya at Gnomdex,

-Alberto

You could also try a metalink. They can contain Mirror & P2P (torrent, ed2k, magnet) info for files.

http://www.metalinker.org/

[...] Never one to sit idly by, Chris and his business partner Jake Ludington took the bull by the horns (no Longhorn joke intended) and created VistaTorrent.com , seeding it with an official copy of the 3.1 gigabyte Vista download. Chris announced this on Sunday evening. [...]

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Bittorrent is a great idea, if you got boradband it is often easer to download but if you want the torrent, I say go for it and be very patient because of trackers and seeds of the torrent.

Can anybody tell me where in vistatorrent.com page are the download links..?

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Hey, Im, sorry..Im not seein where I can download the torrent of windows vista here?

i need vista os torrent because i want to install vista os in my system

i want vista os torrnet and i want instal

when r u gonna get torrent for windows vista? I m waiting eagarly for it.

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