Battle Torrent

The newsletter from Downhill Battle, a non-profit organization working to end the major label monopoly and build a better and fairer music industry, tells me about their latest project, Battle Torrent. I’ve never tried this torrent thing, but since I’m sympathetic to their cause I’m spreading the word about their just launched website sp2torrent.com. :)

It’s a site that links to BitTorrent files of the Windows XP Service Pack that Microsoft has announced. Microsoft is limiting their release of this update due to bandwidth concerns, and we’re taking this chance to show that p2p technology can get the file out to anyone who wants it, without massive server requirements. We’re not doing this to help Microsoft (believe me), but rather as a demonstration of why p2p is valuable.