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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. HUGE!! by Moustache+N+Tits · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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    Grease & Counterbalance
  2. Article Text (Bittorrent style) by OECD · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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    One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
  3. MPAA plans cohens retirement by AmericaHater · · Score: 5, Funny
    Cohen has even started sketching out ideas for his own puzzles. He dreams of making enough money to buy a 3-D prototyping machine and retire."

    (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"

  4. Quote of the Millenium (so far) by jpellino · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...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."

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    "Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
  5. Re:WJR 760 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.