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.

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Question!

[notque]

What are some of the type of things you envisioned being traded over BitTorrent?

Do you already have a defense planned if certain acronyms come knocking?

search functionality

[T_moz]

Do you intend to make searching for bittorrent downloads easier? If so how will you avoid RIAA troubles ?

Question for Bram Cohen...

[QwkHyenA]

Dear Mr. Cohen,

All of this "Information broadcasting" technology is very exciting stuff. I'm very curious where do you currently live? If you could answer the question with an address that would be very helpful. I've got a subpoena^H^H^H^H^H^H some documents I'd like you to look at.

Thanks in advance,
Hilary B. Rosen