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I'm very tempted to look up and download that bundle, but it sounds like something that could potentially cause me a lot of legal problems.

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Overall it's 46Gb, a few thousands of IPs were downloading it the day it was released.

The majority of that torrent was junk -- something like 20 GB of Microsoft's (freely available) patents downloaded from the USPTO, a couple of DVD rips of documentaries tangentially related to Microsoft (like Revolution OS), and a bunch of wacky conspiracy videos downloaded from YouTube (Bill Gates 5G nanoprobe vaccines, etc).

All of the actual content was available elsewhere as much smaller downloads. In particular, the Windows 2000 and XP leaks are distributed as a single 3 GB archive ("nt5src.7z").

> single 3 GB archive

The nt5src.7z src file can also be found on anonfiles and 4chan which was the actual source. It's around 7ish GB unpacked.

boot up a VPN and download the torrent.

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