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jasoncala... jasoncala...
 
M$1 January 02, 2009 06:28 AM

Where are people downloading Windows 7 from?

Robert Scoble asked where people are getting pirated/early released version of the software from.

From a journalistic and research perspective I'd like to know how they are doing this.
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johnsonaar... johnsonaar...
 
 January 02, 2009 02:34 PM
The story as told on a recent episode of Windows Weekly by Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte was that the leaked version was simply walked out of a Chinese Microsoft facility. They eluded to some guy basically just picking up an external hard drive that had the image on it. It's since been made freely available on the Torrent websites. The build number is 6956 that they were referring to, but there seems to be a build 7000 floating around on the interwebs too
Source(s):
www.twit.tv
www.winsupersite.com
http://thepiratebay.org/search/windows%206956/0/99/0

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project project
 
January 02, 2009 03:40 PM - New Source
http://twit.tv/ww87

thats the actual episode

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prem25 prem25
 
January 02, 2009 06:32 AM
people are downloading it for rapidshare.com and megaupload,com sites

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dbspringer dbspringer
 
January 02, 2009 06:45 AM - Fact Refuted
I believe the question is referring to the source of the leak as opposed to the source of the torrent. e.g. JoeBob leaked the beta of Windows 7 to HackerGroup X.

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mrnemo mrnemo
 
January 02, 2009 02:46 PM - Fact Refuted
I think it is very clear from the context that the question is asking for where one can download a copy.

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project project
 
January 02, 2009 03:41 PM - Fact Refuted
Not when reading the discription.

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zumez zumez
 
January 02, 2009 06:33 AM
The Windows beta has been leaked to torrent sites. The reviews I have read so far are promising. The first source link talks about that, and the second is a review of the newest beta. Cheers!
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http://gizmodo.com/5119158/windows-7-beta-1-build-7000-leaked-on-bittorrent
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3222


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mrgunn mrgunn
 
January 02, 2009 02:06 PM
I may or may not have used warez in the past, but a whole OS seems a little sketchy. I mean, it's not like your virus scanner can catch it when it runs, right? You could compare hashes, but how do you know the hash was prepared from an untampered version?

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offthedome offthedome
 
January 02, 2009 06:35 AM
mininova.com is a good source for windows 7.

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srt4cab3 srt4cab3
 
January 02, 2009 07:23 AM
What is windows 7?

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teff torbe... teff torbe...
 
January 02, 2009 07:24 AM
The successor to Vista.

It fixes most of the issues with Vista (namely, it's more resource efficient) while retaining all of the benefits, too.

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cptcobalt cptcobalt
 
January 02, 2009 07:31 AM
Generally people are torrenting windows 7. Rapidshare and Megaupload may also be used, but are much slower than a well seeded torrent.

Trackers such as thepiratebay.org, mininova.org, and demonoid.com(private) are all hosting torrents for Windows 7.

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jimish jimish
 
January 02, 2009 08:27 AM
you can use "piratebay" website to download windows 7 early realesed & it is cracked also......
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"piratebay"


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mrnemo mrnemo
 
January 02, 2009 02:49 PM
Windows 7 is widely available in torrent form. One can simply go to www.btjunkie.org and download the torrent file, which I would suggest be managed with UTorrent (very quick and painless utility).

You would need to forward the ports you select in your application to your PC's IP address in your router to use torrent files effectively.
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http://btjunkie.org/search?q=windows+7 Location for download

http://www.utorrent.com/download.php download location for uTorrent

http://portforward.com/routers.htm port forwarding guide for home routers


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winmaster winmaster
 
January 02, 2009 03:41 PM
The current version, Pre-release Beta 1, has been recently leaked on torrent websites. I do not know of any websites that are actually hosting the image, so a torrent is currently the only way to go. I am currently trying to download this torrent: http://depositfiles.com/files/t60xwan8a using Opera as my torrent client, but it isn't finding sources.
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http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/windows_7_beta_1_leaked


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john rosen... john rosen...
 
January 02, 2009 05:55 PM
Got a Torrent downloader (like Bit Torrent)?

If so, there is a torrent link on this article page:
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http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/06/27/download-windows-7-milestone-1-m1-...


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oboewan oboewan
 
January 03, 2009 01:39 AM
Well, since it's supposedly an internal beta, the only one who could have leaked it out is someone working for Microsoft... or possibly an organizer at a trade event where 7 was being shown off.

Being an internal beta makes it easier to identify the source of the leak (if it were in production, it could have been someone at Microsoft, someone at whatever company is responsible for packing and shipping discs, someone at a store where 7 is sold, or someone who bought 7...)

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