Acting like the Evil Empire (we know and love)

Microsoft recently released Beta 2 of Vista. but the MS download servers are overloaded. So two enterprising souls published a Torrent of their download. Why Microsoft doesn't embrace BitTorrent for their downloads is beyond me. As an MSDN Subscriber, I would love such a feature. So there are some people out there who are ahead of the Microsoft curve (not that is is hard to outrun a glacier). How does Microsoft reward them? Cease and Decist. It just makes you feel that might really still be the Evil Empire of yore.

(via Scripting News)