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BitTorrent's Creator Bram Cohen Interviewed
Delta-9 writes "The New York Times
has this interview (free reg. req.) with Bram Cohen, the author/creator of the widely popular BitTorrent p2p application." Talks a bit about BitTorrent, its implications, but also a lot about Bram himself. Interesting piece.
Please make a "no uploading" option button on BitTorrent, because I am a leech, signed the Kazaa masses.
Somebody needs to create a torrent of this interview in case it gets Slashdotted.
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Aye.... slap him in irons!
they immediately start uploading that piece to other users
Hmm, that would be "immediately start sending that piece to other users". "upload/download" are terms reserved for an asymmetric situation. How can the NYT get this wrong?
Using BitTorrent for illegal trading, he added, is "patently stupid because it's not anonymous, and it can't be made anonymous [...]"
Ooh noo... anyone know a good lawyer?
I gues IHBT but let us play pretend. I just made this ummm fork and its made of plastic .... and stainless steel. Here you can use it to help you get food into your mouth. It's other non-intended use might be get food into a container or perhaps even to stab our /. troll's eyes. Maybe I didn't intend for this to happen...but the best of intentions oft go awry. I find it hard to believe though that someone smart enough to eat with a fork m is naive enough to not realize how it would be utilized.
"Last May, 29 percent of adult Internet users in the United States reported that they had engaged in file sharing; that figure dropped to 14 percent in a survey conducted in November and December."
So did 15 percent of people get their file sharing virginity back?
Depends on how far away the server is.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon packed full of CDs traveling at 55 mph!
why don't you just give us your l/p?
1. What role do you think peer-to-peer encryption will play in the p2p sharing networks of the future?
2. Did you know that you have the same first name as Bram Stoker, the author of "Dracula"?
3. To what degree do you think having "identity verification" (that is, verification of the nodes on a p2p network) is valuable in building reliable networks?
4. Isn't Dracula cool?
5. Who do you think would win in a fight - Dracula or Wolfman?
The ironic part is that I just used BT to download UT2004.
You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake -- but you could be if you got off your ass.
> after a post that offers bittorrent to download isos, we interview its creater.
As another said, that's coincidence. Irony would be if his whole life he touted the thing as the best, safest system ever created.. and then he is killed by it.
Dunno how that could happen, but it would be quite interesting.
Nah, they are just concerned in letting NYT save the $ for HD space.
"...don't read the damn articles."
Preaching to the choir. This is Slashdot, remember?
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
Let's get real, this is /.
People will look for any, and I mean any, reason to not RTFA.
Well, this will work until some funny man changes the password :-)
One of the links on the page when I visited was a link to an online IQ test.
If you are logged on as yourself, they already have a fair bit of info about you.
They can then link this with your IQ and target all the stupid people with adverts
for SUVs.
http://jesus.everdense.com/