Bram Cohen Bram Cohen, the man who 10 years ago gave a new meaning to file-sharing through his BitTorrent technology, declared in a telephone interview that “It’s funny, when I first started working on BitTorrent, what I did was crazy.” “I said, I’m going to go and work on this thing and I’m going to live off of credit cards and have no plan, no business model, no nothing. … Somehow I became cool. I’m not cool. I’m inherently uncool, but somehow the way I’ve lived my life is now considered very cool and the thing to do is to be an entrepreneur.” Who could have guessed that BitTorrent would ever reach such heights in only ten years

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Celebrating a Decade of BitTorrent