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Among the popular applications used on internet are peer-to-peer type of softwares, such as Napster, eDonkey, winMX, Limewire share their respective popularity. Today, a new breed of p2p method has caught the interest of internet users, the problem with the later p2p methods, distributing large amounts of data requires an original distributor. This posts costing, hardware and bandwidth problems. In early 2001 a new protocol for p2p was designed, this was named BitTorrent (BT).

Data distributed on BT protocol supplies new data to each recipients, reducing the costs on source clients. This provides repeated data outsource thus eventually providing reduced dependence on original distributor.

Bram Cohen, is best known as the author of this popular protocol as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol. He is also the co-founder of CodeCon, organizer of the San Fransico Bay Area, P2P hackers meeting and co-author of CodeVille.

Cohen grew up in Manhattan, New York City, NY. At age 5 he was able to use BASIC Programming Language on his family’s Timex Sinclair computer. He attended University at Buffalo but later dropped out to work for several dot com companies. He began writing code for BitTorrent in April 2002, after he quit MojoNation (allows people to break up confidential files into encrypted chunks and distribute those files on computers running the same software). The first BitTorrent client was created in Python, and several other programs have since implemented the protocol.

References:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

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