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Downloads of pirated Windows 7 beta candidate soar
Published 12/30/2008 at Latest from Computerworld
Searches on BitTorrent sites show that thousands of systems are now pulling pirated copies of a new Windows 7 build that Microsoft identifies as a beta candidate.
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