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BitTorrent's Creator Bram Cohen Interviewed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the mega-props-to-this-guy dept.

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.

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  1. Free Reg... blah.. blah... by trp642 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Registration is for wussies! Go Google...
    NY Times

  2. let us not forget by sweeney37 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Slashdot also had an inteview with Bram Cohen back in June.

    Mike

  3. Works for Valve now by S.+Bolle · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's worth quoting from the article that he has been hired by Valve (upcoming Half Life 2) to use his expertise for their Steam content distributing system.

  4. Here's some torrents of legal MP3s by MichaelCrawford · · Score: 5, Informative
    Enjoy.

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  5. Re:Not intended to be used for illegal distributio by tuffy · · Score: 5, Informative
    Then what did he think it was going to be used for?

    Big files, probably. If he wanted it to be used chiefly for big illegal files, he wouldn't have made the system require a centralized tracker that can be shut down and it would've had at least some semblance of anonimity.

    As it stands, BitTorrent is no better at distributing copyright infringing content than HTTP is when it comes to evading the copyright holder.

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  6. Re:Awesome idea #1425: by gooberguy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Done

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  7. Re:Should be used for Linux Distributions by ikewillis · · Score: 5, Informative
    The problems seems to be with the inability of BitTorrent to serve directory heirarchies, and the difficulty of generating .torrent files for a large repository of 10,000 files or more, plus the resource usage of running a BitTorrent tracker for each file.

    It seems there are protocols which are working to overcome these limitations.

  8. Re:What about... registering? by bhtooefr · · Score: 5, Informative

    Remember this:

    User: slashdot124
    Pass: slashdot

    I saw this one on /. when someone had posted a NYT article, and it's now in my Wand list (I use Opera), and the cookie is on the HDD.