Demonstrating A Legitimate Use Of File Sharing For Microsoft's Update?
from the non-infringing-or-infringing? dept
The BBC is reporting on Downhill Battle's move to offer the new Microsoft Windows XP update via BitTorrent as a way of showing how distributed file sharing applications can be used for legitimate, non-infringing purposes (though, the article hints that Microsoft isn't particularly thrilled about this). Of course, anyone who understands how BitTorrent works knows that there are already plenty of examples of non-infringing uses of BitTorrent. At this point, unfortunately, this demo may only serve to show how immature BitTorrent actually is. While the concept is great, the implementation still needs quite a bit of work.
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Hell yeah it's a good example
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I had better luck
My question, though, is what assurance do I have that the final file is, indeed, an unmolested copy of XPSP2? Seems like some sort of digital signature is needed to verify authenticity, or we could be in for a whole new round of trojans.
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Authenticity
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