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Thread ID: 48202	2004-08-17 00:50:00	News: Microsoft takes down SP2 swappers	stu120404 (268)	Press F1

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262391	2004-08-17 00:50:00	Microsoft has taken steps to stop its security update for Windows being shared on file-swapping networks . The SP2 update for Windows XP was being used by file-swapping activists to show how such systems can help get large, important files to lots of users . But legal warnings from Microsoft have forced the file-swappers to end their experiment and stop making the software available to downloaders . Now the only place people are able to get the update is from Microsoft . . . . . . Read the rest Here ( . bbc . co . uk/2/hi/technology/3561430 . stm" target="_blank">news . bbc . co . uk) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was going to say how long it was going to take before this happens!	stu120404 (268)
262392	2004-08-17 01:09:00	I see it has dissappeared from the Jetstreamgames FTP as well.	CYaBro (73)
262393	2004-08-17 01:10:00	Hmmm ... SP2 has now vanished from the Jetstream games server as well! Glad I grabbed it the other day. I guess they are worried about tampered files when the download is not under their control. BitTorrent is certainly a good way of distributing large files without overloading the servers. Some Linux ISO's are only available via BitTorrent as the distributor cannot or will not afford/cope with heavy traffic otherwise to their servers. They see no security issue with this.	Jen C (20)
262394	2004-08-17 02:50:00	We should all face Redmond and bow three times. M$ is doing it's bit to stop viruses by slowing down the spread of SP2 :^O How ironic. R2	R2x1 (4628)
262395	2004-08-17 04:09:00	Now now R2, that's not giving credit where credit is due, they've put alot of hard work into SP2 and it's not nice to mock them like that :| :^O :^O :^O Never was any good at pocker Cheers Murray ;P	Murray P (44)
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