Scoble made a post the other day about Microsoft shutting down people distributing the Windows XP SP2 update via BitTorrent.
I can understand Microsoft shutting down the unofficial distribution of this update, for security issues, but how about setting up a BitTorrent seed of its own? Once people start downloading from it, it'll speed up dramatically, and save download costs (not that Microsoft would really notice :)). I'm pretty sure BitTorrent does an MD5sum check on the download anyway, so any chunks of the file that don't match the original seed (i.e. are corrupted or have been modified) are re-downloaded, thus avoiding any issues with virii.
Most people using BitTorrent would probably know the difference between a virus and a real download, anyway (unless you claim to be downloading a "demo" version of Microsoft Office 2004 before it's even released… he he he. Now where's that link?).
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