Here’s additional Information on the Research Project Code Named Avalanche.

This original paper filed on Microsoft’s website explains the Avalanche project in detail and should help to put to rest the question of what Microsoft’s plans were and are for Avalanche.
http://research.microsoft.com/~pablo/avalanche.htm

You can also see eWeeks take on this issue of a conspiracy to damage BitTorrent. Check out this article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at for his take on this issue.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1831018,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000614