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Wired Interviews Bram Cohen, Creator of BitTorrent

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bit-o'-honey dept.

ZP-Blight writes "Wired has posted an in-depth five page interview with Bram Cohen, the creator of the popular Peer-2-Peer software, BitTorrent."

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  1. Re:Cohen didn't invent multi-source downloading by peeping_Thomist · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    (Disclaimer: I am working on some free software that is competitive with BitTorrent)

    It's too bad people must be willing to use unfree software before they can use your free software.

    --
    Anything worth doing is worth doing badly -- G.K. Chesterton
  2. Re:too bad bittorrent died by Squatchman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, bittorrent is dead. Nothing to see here, move along. Suprnova was the only website that was or would have been able to host torrent files for the general populace to download.

    Back to the Mom's garage crowd on mIRC with you!

  3. Re:A related cause by Microlith · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To protect our rights we must continue to assert individual responsibility as the solution and push for solutions that go after perpetrators of crime, not their tools.

    And they're doing this. Why do slashbots bitch like fucking idiots when they go after the sharers?

  4. Um, yeeaaah, mod me down but ... by PalmKiller · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I understand he has a problem which does not facilitate him playing well with others. However, it sounds like his more like an arrogant programmer that had to quit his job and work day and night to produce anything worthwhile. I mean we all get ideas for our pet projects when we can't work on them and have to deal with the reality of life. The real talent comes when you can hold down a job as a factory worker, programmer, pizza boy, whatever and then find time to produce something that might be of use to others in your little free or borrowed time. His comparing himself to Mozart is little more than arrogance and I find it to be not the case from what I can glean from the article.