Windows 7 Build 6956 torrented

How can IT journalists not "get" the frenzy enthusiasts feel about a new build of a future operating system?

The article from the Inquirer states:

"some users have fiddled enough with the virtual disk image and the 6801 build install to create a fully installable ISO."
That would be the Chinese, again.

And further down:
"We still don’t know what the fuss is about, though. Once you’ve overcome the ISO hurdle, jumped over the activation timer and ran through the WGA protection gate, you get Windows 7 Beta 1 out in two weeks time reinstall... quite frankly, why bother?"

Because by that time you've had one month to pla with this buil. What works, what doesn't, start writing guides and how-tos. It is a VERY time consumming process, but it is what saved Vista in early days, when the only way to install some hardware was by using modified drivers, written by enthusiasts, or one specific version of an older driver that Vista would accept, once again which one determined by relentless and endless testing by enthusiasts. NVIDIA, printer manufacturers, SoundBlaster and others probably waited until the RC/RTM versions and were more than 6 months behind releasing truly vista-compatible drivers. Not to mention Microsoft who never quite got right the list of compatible software and devices, although wikipedia has had a continously updated list since Vista Beta 1.
In other words, we want to reassure all future Windows 7 users that we are hard at work testing hardware and software to ensure the will have a positive experience once Windows 7 finally hits their desktops (by which time we will be busy scouring the torrent sites for alpha builds of Windows 8 :))