Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent

It's a clever P2P 'information broadcasting' concept, as the simple diagram on the BitTorrent home page shows. It's gotten a fair amount of notice, especially here on Slashdot. And reader Ignorant Aardvark wrote to us about BitTorrent sites disappearing, possibly because of RIAA/MPAA intervention, so this technology is now generating some controversy as well. The person behind BitTorrent is Bram Cohen, and he's agreed to answer 10 of the highest-moderated questions about BitTorrent you post here. So ask away (after reading the project FAQ and other info about BitTorrent and Bram, of course). We'll run Bram's answers as soon as he emails them back to us.

Comments

I have a Buck Knife...

[UrGeek]

...I can cut onions with it. Or I can cut someone's throat. Maybe we should go after owners of knives - they can be used for illegal and terrible things.

Or maybe I am an adult. Maybe you can arrest me when I commit a crime and otherwise leave me alone in the privacy of my home, my castle.

Damn the Sonny Bono law and all others that subvert the Constitution!

Another Great .torrent Site ...

[__aasfhc1949]

Hey:

http://www.tvtorrents.com is great site to grab episodes of some of the latest T.V. shows. I just use it to download Enterprise eps. You all should give it a try. It has a nice tracker / statistics system as well.

Re:HOW FUCKING RETARDED OF YOU

[Influencial]

Slashdot should check the accuracy of stories more carefully before posting them; maybe it can maintain some integrity and avoid acting with too much haste, something Microsoft was recently criticised for.

"Microsoft executives also have egg on their faces. The company self-servingly rushed to buy an SCO license one business day after the threat letter, bringing a senior attorney to the office on a Sunday to tell the press how much Microsoft values intellectual property."

Novel Claims Ownership of UNIX System V

Hypocrisy.