Microsoft developers have
posted information on windows vista blog mentioning the reason for taking down the windows vista torrent that was
posted by Chris and Jake recently. I personally agree with the most of the comments users have posted there, people downloading beta are not inexperienced end users but rather experienced developers. With that demographic in mind they could have easily stated the hash for the actual vista ISO in order for the users to verify their downloaded copy. I guess this is a classic case of MS flexing the muscle at the wrong people and then trying to be innocent about their methods.