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Torrents are available.

Edit: oh no, the Microsoft employees found me.

According to others in this thread, there's no need to run the significant risk of [del: installing from a torrent :del][ins: obtaining it from any source other than Microsoft :ins].

That is even better, then.

That said, there are sites with legitimate content (uploaders are known and trusted and so forth).

Check sums are usually publically known so you aren'tr isking much if you actually verify them.

BitTorrent is superior file distribution technology, it deserves to be used.

Yeah, torrents are not just for piracy. I believe many Linux distributions offer a .torrent file for their download. Arch Linux does.

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