Bram Cohen
Bram Cohen
Bram Cohen is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peerBitTorrent protocol, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol, also known as BitTorrent. He is also the co-founder of CodeCon and organizer of the San Francisco Bay Area P2P-hackers meeting, and was the co-author of Codeville...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
song mean people
The content people have no clue. I mean, no clue. The cost of bandwidth is going down to nothing. And the size of hard drives is getting so big, and they're so cheap, that pretty soon you'll have every song you own on one hard drive. The content distribution industry is going to evaporate.
writing quality idiot
Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.
belief both companies facto ideal leading media platform protocol publishers shares
While BitTorrent already has become the de facto protocol for cooperative distribution on the Internet, DCM shares our belief that BitTorrent will become the ideal platform for both independent publishers and the world's leading media companies alike.
american-scientist good
I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. 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.
american-scientist mind
When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac.
mature realizing mark
The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless
want problem tricks
The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.
technology thinking drug-use
Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, or eavesdrop. I am not naive enough to think any of those technologies could enable a 'compromise'.
ideas entrepreneur risk
Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur's.
interesting looks
When you're a connoiseur you look for interesting rather than good.
attitude school care
One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.
ideas way programming
A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.
team accomplished my-own
I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.
arrogant i-can knows
I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.