Bram Cohen

BitTorrent Inventor Cohen Working on Live P2P Streaming

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 17, 2009 - 11:41am.

Los Angeles - Bram Cohen, developer of the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol, is currently working on technology that would bring live streaming to the platform sometime next year, TorrentFreak reported. "I think there's a very large market for live [streaming] in general, and to date no one has proven that a p2p solution can meet the real-world requirements for being an acceptable live solution. I intend on changing that," Cohen told TorrentFreak.

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Wired News: Interview with BitTorrent Creator Bram Cohen

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 4, 2006 - 3:33pm.

San Francisco - Wired News on Monday featured an interview with Bram Cohen, developer of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing application. Contrary to reports last week that Cohen is leaving the company -- which accompanied news that BitTorrent had raised $20 million in new financing and signed new deals with networks and studios -- Cohen told Wired News he's staying at BitTorrent. He also confirmed that content from studios and networks distributed on BitTorrent will be protected by Windows DRM. "We're going to see everything continue to become more web-based, and the special status of high-quality video files and other large files as somehow different will go away. The current limitations on distributing them will cease to exist," Cohen told Wired News.