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January 07, 2005
When A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings In Washington, Millions Download Media Worldwide.
We always wait to get our copy of Wired in the mail, but this article, available online, has been pointed out by a regular Gadget Lounge reader. Given the stream of article we’ve had about eXeem recently, it’s worth mentioning that Wired has an article all about BitTorrent and its inventor, Bram Cohen.
For Cohen, it’s all a little surreal. He gets up in the morning, helps his wife feed their children, and then sits down at his cord-and-computer-choked desk to watch his PayPal account fill up with donations from grateful BitTorrent users – enough to support his family. Then he goes online to see how many more people have downloaded the program: At this rate, it’ll be 40 million by 2006.
“I can’t even imagine a crowd that big. I try not to think about it,” he admits.
So he does what he always does. He narrows his focus to zoom in on the next thorny problem, the next interesting technical challenge. Like our game of Amazons.
For sentimentalists, like ourselves, this wired should arrive in the mail shortly, or you can read the article online, The BitTorrent Effect.
Thanks for the pointer Ben.
You can also find more of Bram at his Live Journal site, here.
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