Bram Cohen to Release BitTorrent Search Engine

AI Playground writes "Within two weeks, a BitTorrent search engine will be available at BitTorrent.com. From the Wired News article: 'Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen's popular BitTorrent protocol.'"

Comments

RIAA to release lawsuit in two weeks.

[mspohr]

... should give them enough time.

Re:RIAA to release lawsuit in two weeks.

[irving47]

We should start a pool. When do they get their first cease and desist? When do they get shut down for good? When do they go to court... The potential for profit is staggering!

Re:RIAA to release lawsuit in two weeks.

[bad_outlook]

They could get it out faster if they release it as a .torrent

bo

Re:RIAA to release lawsuit in two weeks.

[Davis Bacon]

Dude obviously needs to eat, and he's making a sponsored search engine. All I can say is "kaching".

Is this another damned KDE utility? Don't we already have enough caching utilities?

-Jam

Slashdot May 24th 2005

[Anonymous Coward]

Bram Cohen found beaten to a bloody pulp.

The mysterious letters 'RIAA' An 'MPAA' were found branded on his still quivering bottom.

I wonder

[datadriven]

if the RIAA & the MPAA would be interested in buy ad space?

Categorized results?

[Nytewynd]

I wonder if they are going to make it super easy for the FBI, and just let them type in "Illegal Downloads". The only saving grace is that the list will be so long it will probably freeze up the FBIs network.

A search engine is a decent idea, but if you can't find your files already, you aren't doing something right. I'm not sure BitTorrent is the kind of thing that should be catering to the dumb computer user. Part of the reason it hasn't been locked down totally is because the masses haven't figured it out. Make it as easy to use as Napster, and it will be shutdown as fast as possible.

Re:Nice Troll, Wired News

[nEoN nOoDlE]

Is stating the obvious truth considered trolling now? What should it have said? "Cataloging and indexing the thousands of movie trailers, free indie music tracks, and software demos and other files for download..." more to your liking?