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Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent

Posted by Roblimo on from the elegant-solutions-to-the-download-bandwidth-problem dept.

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.

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  1. BitTorrent is a good name by Gizzmonic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sir, you ask me if I want to leave my desk to go to the bathroom? There's simply no need! I'm wearing Dockers with Stain Defender!

    Yes, even a soupy puddle of feces won't drip through! Thanks, Dockers!

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  2. Will they realy? by jjshoe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Will you realy run these questions back to us as soon as you get them, or will i have to pay to see it as soon as others? personaly, i dont like to see stories right away, the chance of fakes and dupes isnt caught until about 50 people post saying it is a dup or a fake.

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  3. Hullo Hullo... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Wots all this then?

  4. I have a Buck Knife... by UrGeek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...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!

  5. Another Great .torrent Site ... by __aasfhc1949 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    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.

  6. Re:HOW FUCKING RETARDED OF YOU by Influencial · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    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.

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  7. We killed the torrent sites, blame the editors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is 'Roblimo' really so dense as to believe that the xxAA's are killing the torrent sites? The torrent site are all dead because YOU KEEP SLASHDOTTING THEM. If you could give them even a week without forcing them to find new hosting (because you intentionally ddos'ed them), then maybe they could stay up for more than a day at best. Maybe if the editors could act responsibly with regard to the slashdot effect, instead of maliciously killing server after server, then the torrent community would stand a chance. You have only yourselves to blame for crippling this network.