Originally Posted By: jford
I do pity those folks on metered internet connections that got notices from their provider that they exceeded their bandwidth because unknown to them, Microsoft was using their connection to distribute Windows to other users.



Yep, that seems pretty rough! You'd think there would be a big, glaring notice that you were signing your computer up to this, wouldn't you? Plus repeated check-ins every, say, gigabyte that you uploaded, asking if you wished to continue functioning as a peer-to-peer distribution node. So weird.


Will - PG Music