Downloads of pirated Windows 7 beta candidate soar

Build 7000 of upcoming OS growing in popularity on BitTorrent sites


(Computerworld) Downloads of a new build of Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming Windows 7 operating system have soared in the past two days, with thousands of systems now pulling pirated copies from BitTorrent sites.

Searches today on the Pirate Bay BitTorrent site, for example, returned multiple listings of Windows 7 Build 7000, which Microsoft identifies as a beta candidate in the file name. The torrent is a disk image of the 32-bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate; a 64-bit version is not yet available.

The most heavily trafficked Windows 7 BitTorrent on Pirate Bay showed more than 4,300 "seeders" — the term for a computer that has a complete copy of the torrent file — and about 7,500 "leechers," or computers that have downloaded only part of the complete torrent. Less popular BitTorrents of the file on Pirate Bay claimed an additional 1,000 seeders and more than 3,000 leechers.

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Wonder why they would want something that's still in beta.

Because its beta doesn't mean its not worth experimenting with......where's the geek in you Agent?

Build 7000 runs nice and stable actually, and im struggling to find any issue's with it.

If someone has experienced any please let me know!

Regards

Somehow I prefer experiencing the full thing all at once. It feels nicer, and it comes with surprise.

same here... don't really like beta either