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Considering the media-attention for the second servicepack for Windows XP, the action group Downhill Battle thought found to have a perfect example to illustrate legitimate use of p2p-technologie. Microsoft has look however someone else on the affair.

The experiment the complete network installation of SP2 via BitTorrent to not to divide lasted long. Only single days stood the torrent-truce (with which a particular torrentdownload can become opgestart) on sp2torrent.com. Until Wednesdays, for then the hostingcompanies of Downhill Battle a letter of Microsoft got. The softwaregiant wanted to remove to let to the American Digital Millennium Copyright Act-law the downloadlinks.

Downhill Battle wanted with the initiative demonstrate that pear-to-pear Technology ankle do not serves for the taking away of illegal music and movie truce. At the same time want the group, that self mostly occupies with actions around music and internet, the technological advantages of BitTorrent emphasize.

For true Microsoft the number downloads of SP2 must limit until 2.5 million per day, will the distributed BitTorrent-exemplarily much more downloaders must manage. “This project proves how lines herring-technology men without budgets or servers the power gives self problems on to discharge, without having to wait until the authorities or an enterprise the furrow them does”, stilt Downhill Battle.

Now that sp2torrent.com longer the downloadlinks do not offers, can users only in the right place by Microsoft self. On this page of the softwaregiant more information stands and a shady the giants plaster off to get.