Windows Vista SP2 RC Build 6002.16670.090130 released to testers
As various Windows blogs are reporting, Microsoft is issuing some test updates for the official Windows 7 Beta (that's build 7000) this month, on the 24.
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20.2.2009 Windows 7 Milestone 2 M2 available on Torrent Websites
Windows 7 Milestone 2 is the next stage in the evolution of Windows Vista's successor.
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14.7.2008 Windows 7 Build 7201 Available on Torrent Rapidshare
Hype of the RC2 leak is increasing rapidly the time i m writing 503 peoples were active on a single thread over sevenforums.
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3.6.2009 Windows 7 M1 build shows up on various torrent sites
It was only a matter of time..
Not too long after Microsoft had released a developer build of the Windows 7 Milestone 1 release to a select few, review and opinion pieces started to leak onto Windows enthusiast sites by OEM employees or their beneficiaries.
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26.1.2008 Australia to test blocking all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic
Australia has been known to have high levels of censorship. It should come as no surprise to those in the land down under that the government is planning to filter P2P and Bit Torrent traffic in live pilot tests.
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23.12.2008 Microsoft: Don't Download Windows 7 Interim Builds from Torrent Trackers
Leaked builds of Windows 7 available for download via torrent trackers have been accompanying the development of the next iteration of Windows since the operating system was in Milestone 1 stage.
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16.4.2009 Windows XP SP3 RC2 Leaked and Available for Download on Torrent Websites
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 has been leaked and is available for download on torrent websites. Three days after releasing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing, Microsoft launched another development milestone of XP SP3.
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13.2.2008 Download Windows 7 Build 6956 VHD Image via BT Torrent
Windows 7 beta (or beta 1) is possibly been released in January or February 2009 which Keith Comb has even mentioned in a comment on his TechNet blog (has since been removed) that “we (Microsoft) are targeting to have the DVD’s in the materials from 1/13/2009 on”.
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5.12.2008 New Windows XP SP3 Beta Build 3205 Leaked to Torrent Trackers
The latest build of Windows XP SP3 Beta has been leaked to Peer-to-Peer file sharing networks. Following the availability of Release Candidate 0 for Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn as well as the first fully-fledged beta for Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft also dropped another beta version of the third and final Service Pack for Windows XP.
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11.10.2007 Windows 7 Beta 1 Build 7000 DVD ISO Image Torrent and NamiPan Download
f indeed the Windows 7 initial first beta release will have the build version number of 7000, the DVD ISO image of the 32-bit (x86) Windows 7 6.1.7000.0, 7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso, has been leaked to Internet.
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26.12.2008 Vista SP1 RTM Slipstream (Integrated ) DVD ISO Image - Leaked to Torrent Websites
hile Microsoft continues at a slow pace toward the general availability of Windows Vista SP1 RTM, the service pack has already slipped through the company's fingers, so to speak.
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4.3.2008 Download 64-bit Windows 7 6801 Pre-Beta ISO Microsoft.Windows.7 64Bit.Build.6801.DVD-WinBeta Torrent
Other than 32-bit edition of Windows 7 Pre-Beta build version 6801 that has been leaked to the Web for free download via torrent, the 64-bit edition of Windows 7 Pre-Beta with build tag 6801, which is also been distributed to attendees during the PDC 2008, has been leaked to Internet, and can be downloaded via fully seeded torrent.
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30.10.2008Windows Vista SP2: RTM Escrow build reaches internal testers
Sources say that the RTM Escrow build of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 has been released to a group of internal testers. The
build number of this pre RTM build is 6002.17506.090313-1730, compiled on March 13, 2009. The RTM build numbers are also finalised and would be
6002.17507.090319-1515 and 6002.17508.090320-1600 Windows Vista & Windows Server 2008 SP2 is expected to reach RTM in April 2009 and the final
release announcement is likely to happen at the TechEd 2009 event scheduled for May 11-15, 2009 in Los Angeles. The release candidate version was made
available to general public early this month.
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22.03.2009Trojan, distributed over torrent, blocks torrent sites
A trojan named Troj/Qhost-AC, has been spotted on torrent sites labeled as a keygen for popular software. But in a strange surprise, the trojan would
modify the users host file, rather than generating a key, changing popular torrent web sites like, The Pirate Bay, Suprbay (The Pirate Bay forum) and
Mininova, the two most popular torrent sites on the internet to 127.0.0.1, making it impossible to visit these sites. The Trojan caused pop-ups on
users screens and played a sound file saying "downloading is wrong". The Trojan didn't install any other spyware or malware onto the victims
PC, other than blocking the three web sites, something that many users thought was strange.
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06.01.2009Office 2010 Has Leaked!
The Technical Preview of Office 2010 has officially leaked! WZor.net uploaded a torrent a few hours ago for both the x86 and x64 versions of the
new Office suite.
Without further ado, I present:
Microsoft Office 2010 (x86)
AND
Microsoft Office 2010 (x64)
The x64
torrent doesn't seem to be very active at the moment, but over time, as it gains more seeders, hopefully it will pick up. We were achieving speeds of
up to 1000kbps during our download of the x86 version, so the torrent is going strong... That is, until the rest of the world picks up on it...
Download quickly!
While you eagerly await the end of your download, check out a screenshot gallery from WZor as well (the version pictured
in the screenshots is the x64 version).
The links in this article were obtained from WZor's homepage, http://wzor.net/indexx.html
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16.05.2009Australia to test blocking all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic
Australia has been known to have high levels of censorship. It should come as no surprise to those in the land down under that the government is
planning to filter P2P and Bit Torrent traffic in live pilot tests. Senator Conroy went on the record saying "technology that filters peer-to-peer
and Bit Torrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial". It is a drastic
step to filter out all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic as it assumes that those channels are only used for piracy. One example of legitimate use is the
popular online game World of Warcraft.
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23.12.2008"txtor" tool circumvents basic torrent blockers
To the frustration of many students and other avid torrent downloaders, some universities and ISPs have been known to block the download of .torrent
files in an effort to curb illegal file sharing. This quick and dirty method of filtering Internet content is usually done through the use of a proxy
server that will look for a torrent mime-type in the file or, even simpler, the file extension itself. Although this method seems almost too simple to
take seriously, enough admins have found it effective enough to justify its use.
That's why a group of developers launched
txtor today, a site that makes it possible to download .torrent files as if they were text
files. As the site explains, from the user perspective, the service functions very simply. Plug in the URL of a torrent file, and it's translated to
a text file for you to download. For a moderately more technical explanation, the site merely takes the file and changes the mimetype and extension,
then spits it back out at you as a text file in order to bypass proxy-level torrent file blocks. Then, all you need to do is change the file extension
back from .txt to .torrent and open it up in your favorite torrent client. Based on our testing of txtor, we can say that the tool works exactly as
advertised.
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28.09.2007Controversy over new Pirate Bay Facebook feature
The Pirate Bay has added a small, but significant feature to their website which will almost certainly prove to be controversial. The new feature is a
link provided on each torrent page which allows users to post the link to the particular torrent onto their Facebook profile. Friends can then begin
to download the particular torrent straight from their Facebook page, assuming a torrent client is installed. Many websites allow their users to do
the very same thing – even Neowin allows its users to submit news articles to Facebook; however the controversy lies in just what users will be
sharing, with the use of this.
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30.03.2009Popular Torrent Site Suprnova Set to Return
Popular torrent site The
Pirate Bay says it will
relaunch Suprnova.org, one of
the most popular BitTorrent
sites on the Internet and
target of the ire of the MPAA...
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03.08.2007Steal This Film 2 hits File Sharing Networks
Steal This Film 1, which was downloaded nearly 3 million times, has now been succeeded officially (as the sequel premiered and was ironically leaked
last month) by none other than Steal This Film 2. By producing this video, the League of Noble Peers, which features many prominent individuals from
the BitTorrent community, has the goal of “ bringing new people into the leagues of those now prepared to think 'after intellectual
property', think creatively about the future of distribution, production and creativity .” For those still confused, Steal This Film is a
series documenting the movement against intellectual property. The films discuss piracy culture as well as raids against file sharing websites. In the
spirit of piracy, the movie is completely free for download.
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30.12.2007Windows 7 leaks to Web, pirates downloading
Leaked copies of Windows 7 hit the Internet only hours after Microsoft Corp. handed out a preview build to developers last week, according to searches
at several BitTorrent-tracking sites. The notorious Pirate Bay site, for example, first noted the 32-bit version of the upcoming operating system on
Oct. 29, just one day after Microsoft unveiled Windows 7 to attendees at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. A 64-bit edition was
posted the following day.
As of midday Sunday, with several copies of Windows 7 available, downloading was brisk. One 32-bit torrent listed
on Pirate Bay showed more than 1,400 "seeders," the term for a computer that has a complete copy of the torrent file, and close to 5,300
"leechers," or computers that have downloaded only part of the complete torrent. The 32-bit torrent installs a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, according
to users commenting on the site.
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03.11.2008Vista SP1 x86 appears on Torrent Sites
In the last few days, certain Neowin forum members have reported that an image of Vista SP1 x86 Final has leaked to torrent sites. This file is
supposedly a slipstreamed image of the final Service Pack 1 for Vista x86. It is allegedly available in various languages, including English. Since
many believe that this is indeed the download that Microsoft will provide in the upcoming weeks, I would like to emphasize that this is not the case.
This release is not official, nor is it genuine. I repeat: Vista SP1 has not gone final.
Neowin members are reporting that the file in
question may be SP1 Refresh 2 slipstreamed or simply a malware-filled release. I would like to remind our members not to post links to any Vista SP1
build, unless it comes directly from Microsoft’s servers.
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28.01.2008Windows 7 M1 build shows up on various torrent sites
It was only a matter of time..
Not too long after Microsoft had released a developer build of the Windows 7 Milestone 1 release to a select
few,
review and opinion
pieces started to leak onto Windows enthusiast sites by OEM employees or their beneficiaries. So it's hardly surprising that now -just a few
days later, the full naked DVD image has started to show up on a few torrent sites. Most have been verified as fake and removed, and while we
haven't been able to verify for ourselves if indeed the milestone has been leaked to the pirating community, it sure is stirring up a lot of
interest in the past 24hrs!
Developing..
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27.01.2008Nine Inch Nails Uploads New Album on Torrent Sites
Nine Inch Nails has just released the first volume of their new album “Ghosts” on BitTorrent sites as a free download. The band encourages
its fans to share the album with friends, post it on websites and play it on podcasts
“Ghosts” is released under a non-commercial
Creative Commons license and can be shared freely, something their fans weren’t allowed to do when the band was held back by a record label. In
the release notes the band writes: “Now that we’re no longer constrained by a record label, we’ve decided to personally upload Ghosts
I, the first of the four volumes, to various torrent sites, because we believe BitTorrent is a revolutionary digital distribution method, and we
believe in finding ways to utilize new technologies instead of fighting them.”
This sounds is music to our ears, in more ways than
one. For now, only the first volume has been uploaded onto BitTorrent sites, but the entire collection is available for download on the official
website for only $5
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04.03.2008Windows 7 Build 7077 x64 leaks!
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ThePirateBay owners may face prison time
ThePirateBay owners, Hans Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundströmare set to appear in court on Monday and could
face two years in prison and a fine as high as $180,000 fine each. The four owners of the very popular public torrent web site face charges of
copyright infringement. The servers are located out of Sweden and out of reach of law enforcement, meaning the site will likely stay online if the
owners go behind bars. ThePirateBay is known for hosting torrent files linking users to movies, software, games and other types of copyright material
that is illegal spread among users using P2P protocol and a BitTorrent client.
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neowin.net - 14.02.2009
Shift Linux 0.5 (RC-1) Is Released
Shift Linux is a project that was created by the Neowin community. Shift is Debian based, therefore it has access to all of the software and
applications as other Debian distributions. Neowin's Shift Linux is designed to give the user an experience of being part of the Neowin community as
well as having a simple, easy-to-use Live CD that can be installed to your hard drive, if you enjoy the way our distribution works. Shift is a free,
GPL-based Linux distribution that can be freely distributed or modified. There are no restrictions with Shift.
Shift Linux 0.5 (RC-1) will
include three fully branded versions: KDE, Gnome, and Flux, all Live CDs. Included in this version are most of the most popular packages to include
wireless support and a desktop installer.
Please feel free to try out these versions and post any bugs that you may find. Comments on how
we can improve this distribution may also be posted on the Shift Linux website, and bug reports can be posted on the project bug tracker.
neowin.net - 23.08.2007
Download Windows 7 Build 7201 from JCXP!
Another week and another Windows 7 leak. Last week build 7137 leaked and this week it is 7201's turn. This time around the build tag is
7201.0.090601-1516 meaning this build is only 3 days old. It's been rumored to leak all day, but just minutes ago, the torrents were posted.
Microsoft Netherlands employee Ruud de Jonge twittered "Installing Win 7 build 7201" a few moments ago to confirm the builds
authenticity.
Microsoft revealed yesterday that it will sign off final RTM code in mid to late July with a general availability and release
date of 22nd October for Windows 7.
Download x64 build 7201 for
Windows 7 here
Download x86 build 7201 for Windows 7
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jcxp.net - 04.06.2009
µTorrent 1.6.1 Beta Build 483
µTorrent is an efficient and
feature rich BitTorrent client
for Windows sporting a very
small footprint. It was
designed to use as little cpu,
memory and space as possible
while offering all the
functionality expected from
advanced clients.
483 should solve most of the
loading freezing issues people
are having. If people are
still having them after
upgrading to 483 then please
come into #utorrent-webui so
we can get some info from
u.
Oh and before
people inevitably start asking
for a changelog, this is all
your gonna
get:- Ctrl+F12 crash
feature taken
out
- Category list
custom label bug
fixed
- Cache header bug
fixed
- Guest redirect
improved
neowin.net - 06.10.2006
TorrentSpy, ISOHunt to Begin Search Filtering
Two major torrent sites have
announced plans to start
filtering their search results
in an effort to block
copyrighted content, and to
avoid the need to shut down
their services...
betanews.com - 27.06.2007
Bill Gates Talk on Computing from 1989
Bill Gates discusses the
software and computer
industry, and how Microsoft
has contributed. Gates also
discusses his views on the
future of the computing
industry. The talk was
recorded in 1989 but was only
recently digitized. Topics
include:
- Microsoft BASIC and
the Altair 880
computer
- 640k memory
barrier and 16-bit
architectures
- EGA
graphics and WYSIWYG
editors
- The importance
and future of the
mouse
- Object-oriented
programming
- MS-DOS and
the importance of
OS/2
- Apple vs.
Microsoft lawsuit regarding
user
interfaces
- Microsoft
Office on
Macintosh
- Gates'
current role at
Microsoft
neowin.net - 25.03.2007
TorrentSpy, isoHunt to filter copyrighted content
It is being reported that
isoHunt, another US-based
torrent search engine that has
been battling against the
movie industry for some time,
also plans to use the
hash-based system to filter
pirated content from its
search results. With
FileRights, studios need to
submit the file's name and
hash code to automate the
takedown process, however,
hash codes can be altered and
files renamed, so the outcome
of this filtering tool remains
to be seen.
The
popular public torrent tracker
TorrentSpy, currently in the
middle of a legal battle
against copyright owners, has
decided to give in and start
showing some level of good
faith in the fight against
piracy by adding a content
filtering tool called
FileRights.
Pressure
is building on TorrentSpy
after a judge recently ordered
the search engine to log user
activity to be handed as
evidence. The company stated
that it doesnt keep any logs
and therefore cannot produce
any, but a judge has ruled
that the necessary information
is already stored temporarily
in server RAM and they just
need to record it. TorrentSpy
is still fighting this ruling
with the help of the EFF and
the Center for Democracy &
Technology. However, they
appear to have abandoned the
fight over filtering, hoping
to prove to the courts that
they have no desire to incite
infringement...
winbeta.org - 27.06.2007
