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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. Azureus client is the best by tedgyz · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you have not tried Azureus, you have not felt the full power of bittorrent.

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  2. Re:Not a 5 page article by deglr6328 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's calld a "printer friendly version".

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  3. Re:Article describes eDonkey2000 by Java+Pimp · · Score: 4, Informative

    Given that quoted paragraph and the following, it is apparent that even after interviewing the creator, the author has absolutely no idea what bit torrent is for or how it works.

    He [Cohen] sketched out a protocol: To download that copy of Meet the Fokkers...

    Yeah, I'm sure that's what he was thinking when he created the protocol...

    a user's computer sniffs around for others online who have pieces of the movie

    No, trackers keep track of who is downloading or seeding the file, there is no sniffing around. Infact, there is no search capability that I am aware of...

    The more files you're willing to share, the faster any individual torrent downloads

    Are you kidding me? No... the more people downloading/seeding an individual torrent, the faster it downloads. More files have nothing to do with anything.

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  4. Re:bittorrent weakness by 314m678 · · Score: 5, Informative

    go to www.google.com type in FileIwant filetype:torrent Press search.

  5. High School Memories by echocharlie · · Score: 5, Informative

    I went to High School with Bram Cohen. He was brilliant back then too. The article paints a pretty good picture of what I remember of him. We went to Stuyvesant, a specialized HS in NYC with a standardized test to get in. Basically, it's a school for uber-nerds.

    Found a picture of the Math team back in 1993. Bram's the guy with the bushy hair in the back row near the center next to the tall asian guy and another guy with a hat. He was the co-captain of the team that year, if I remember correctly. I think he ended up in the State University of New York at Buffalo. That always bothered me for some reason. He definitely was smart enough to make it into a better school. Why did he choose to go to Buffalo?

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