Slashdot Mirror
Wired Interviews Bram Cohen, Creator of BitTorrent
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."
← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)
← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)
a 5!!! page article?! I sure hope they figure out a good way of distributing all that bandwidth to a large amount of people with minimum slowdown!
Grease & Counterbalance
Wired is getting slow.
Wired
Cohen
Wired
Cohen
Wired
Cohen
Wired
Cohen
This is at the top of the story:
:P
"Movie studios hate it. File-swappers love it. Bram Cohen's blazing-fast P2P software has turned the Internet into a universal TiVo. For free video-on-demand, just click here."
Unfortunately someone forgot to add the link
Wouldn't mind playing with some Amazons myself.
"In our research with consumers, content-on-demand is the killer app. They like the idea of paying only for what they watch." The trick, he figures, is to work out a solution before the audience for illegal downloading becomes truly huge. He figures the networks have 10 years.
Sounds like a very liberal estimate. I'd say that illegal downloading has already become pretty "huge". If it wasn't, what are the MPAA/RIAA getting so worked up about, and why are all these TV executives commenting on it in the first place?
Later in the article they discuss the takedown notice Dreamworks sent to ThePirateBay.org concerning Shrek 2, for those of you who havn't already, and are interested to read the letter (and the hilarious response), check it out here:
Dreamworks Takedown Notice & Response
She's built like a steak house, but she handles like a bistro....
I misread his name as Brian Cohen.
"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
Ho hum. Long day.
Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules.
what's funny is that the pirate bay got slashdotted due to this story. by the third page its basically "hey everyone get free movies, television etc.!" to people who didn't even know what BT was...plus not too many people knew about piratebay before. haha. stupid Wired
Here's the article text, Bittorent style: ...von Lohmann, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, because Linux...
C'mon, start serving you leeches! That's all I got!
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
(MPAA exec on intercom to his secretary): "mrs Jones find me a 3D prototype manufacturer".
[delay]
(secretary):"I found four of them, but Jesus, they're $5million each!!!"
(exec): "buy four and ship them to that fucker Cohen by the end of the day - and my names not Jesus it's God"
...The only shows he watches are those he buys on DVD. He particularly loved the first season of Paris Hilton's The Simple Life. "You can watch that show for six hours," Cohen says, "and your brain is still empty."
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
From TFA:
"We consider it a regrettable but necessary step," says John Malcolm of the MPAA. "We saw the devastating effect that peer-to-peer piracy had on the record industry."
I literally had to wipe the spittle off my monitor after reading that.
(For those uninformed: There is no evidence that the recording industry profits are down due to file sharing.)
He should only answer a question if he gets to ask the interviewer a question too.
If the interviewer doesn't respond Bram should just start talking slower and slower and then finally disconnect.
Maybe that's what happened.
I loved him in all those dracula movies.
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won
Did he do much work on Steam?
I think we should just end piracy once and for all by outlawing Microsoft's TCP/IP stack, since it has been proven that it is used in over 90% of all cases of internet piracy.
He's "understated"?
"'I'm very, very good at writing protocols. I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.' While we're having lunch, his wife, Jenna, tells me about the time they were watching Amadeus, where Mozart writes his music so rapidly and perfectly it appears to have been dictated by God. Cohen decided he was kind of like that. Like Mozart? Bram and Jenna nod."