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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. great slashdot em some more! by Syowr · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ahh just what the sites already getting hit hard need.. yet another good slashdotting...

    /sigh

  2. My question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bram, how long is your schlong? If possible, the circumference, too?

  3. question that we all want you to answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    do you prefer to be on you stomach or knees when you get fucked up the ass by your hairy gay lover

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  4. Oooooh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    And I thought torrentse.cx was what you get when you imagine a beowulf cluster of golden showers on the naked and petrified statue of Natalie Portman making hot grits for her penisbird.

    Thanks for clarifying that.

  5. Re:Improvements by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    On that note, did you know that GNU is the top hit on Google for "s"?

    Sure...but did you know that the phrase "GNU S" comes up on the top hit for "r"?

    lol