Wired Interviews Bram Cohen, Creator of BitTorrent 383
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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HUGE!! (Score:5, Funny)
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Wired is getting slow.
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Link (Score:5, Funny)
"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
Lost in the Jungle (Score:4, Funny)
Wouldn't mind playing with some Amazons myself.
10 Years?! (Score:5, Funny)
"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 [thepiratebay.org]
The Life of (Score:3, Funny)
"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
Ho hum. Long day.
piratebay /.'d (Score:2, Funny)
Article Text (Bittorrent style) (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!
MPAA plans cohens retirement (Score: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"
Quote of the Millenium (so far) (Score:5, Funny)
MPAA continues to amaze (Score:2, Funny)
"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.)
Re:WJR 760 (Score:5, Funny)
If the interviewer doesn't respond Bram should just start talking slower and slower and then finally disconnect.
Maybe that's what happened.
Re:Bram is cool (Score:3, Funny)
Does he still work for Valve? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:WJR 760 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bram is cool (Score:4, Funny)
"'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."