I want my XP SP2!

In anticipation of XP’s SP2, I went ahead and uninstalled the beta version that I had been running on my laptop. OOPS! Big mistake! Apparently, those of us running the beta version would have been the first to receive the update, with the rollout having begun yesterday. [Picture me hitting my forehead with my hand and going "D'OH!"] Oh well, it seems the general public will beging getting the update starting sometime between August 16th and 25th. What’s with the staged rollout? Well, even with the server computing power of Microsoft, they have to limit their downloads. So, I was thinking, why not head on over to http://www.sp2torrent.com and get my SP2 as via bitTorrent? Well, because they stopped offering it, that’s why. Looks like they ended up caving to legal pressure from Microsoft. The notice at sp2torrent.com reads:

Sorry, no more downloads here…
Microsoft sent DMCA takedown notices to our two webhosts, one of which was just linking to a torrent file on another server. We’ve stood up to these kinds of legal threats before (see the Grey Tuesday protests), but we decided not to bother this time, because we started this site primarily as a demonstration and to that end it’s already been a huge success. SP2torrent.com showed how filesharing technlogy gives people without budgets or huge servers the power to solve problems themselves, without waiting for the government or some corporation to do it for them. For another demonstration that’s still in action, check out p2pcongress.org.

Some info via source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1634710,00.asp