rotjong: who says you NEED MSDN? lol
If M$ starts bitching cause people are bootlegging a beta... they've got some serious issues. If anything, i think they should be WELCOMING it. why not let the masses try out a new OS WITHOUT having to pay an insane amount of money for their service? Not only would they have a much larger user base for finding bugs, but it could also have the ability to have people sold on buying the OS when it hits store shelves. It's already worked for me!
I'm not the bootlegging sort even if Microsoft doesn't mind. I'll just have to wait until there is some sort of public beta or something.