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Originally posted by John Anderton
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
PS: Leaking a closed private beta is even worse than using one!!!
Actually there should be a way to figure out who leaked the beta. I have a few ideas and i seriously want to contact the messenger branch of MS. Cookie might you have some ideas ??
And any person found leaking a beta should be not only scrapped from the program but also never allowed into something like this as far as possible 
A fine and stuff would be great 
Tho not possible
There are pluses for leaking things. NO, I'm not saying it's fine to leak things. I'm a firm stander on not leaking things, except information (News purposes only). The way I see it, is that if a product is leaked and people hack it to use it, it means that people want it. Thus meaning that people WANT to use the betas. The more people using the betas, the more bugs can be found. Cookie is right though, half the crap reported are not bugs at all but local computer/connection problems.
When the wonderfull little prompt comes up "MSN Messenger has encountered a error and needs to close", and you send a bug report, it is likely that if a huge number of people also report and have that bug it will be fixed. That is the only plus I see in it.
Oh yeah, not to mention that the first leak was Microsoft's fault for posting it on the live website.
Like Jonathan said, "If your product is getting leaked, then it's doing good"
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Now, back to your original post about stopping leaking. I thought of this a while back when I was discussing the new CNI with a few other people. Why not tag each download by a beta tester? As to say, you have to be logged in and each download will be tagged? That way when someone leaks it, it will be easy to track the leaker and get them out of the beta. There is always going to be leaks, always. There are going to be people who give in to there friends and send them the beta. It's just a matter of getting those who will leak the product out of the beta.
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