BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen has left the company
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Re: BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen has left the company
#2Am I the only one confused by this series of stories?
BitTorrent isn't a company, it's a protocol. Whatever happens in any private or public business anywhere in the world for years to come is going to have absolutely zero impact on the public's usage of the bittorrent protocol.
Why would you even have a business named BitTorrent? Would you name your business "E-Mail"?
It makes zero sense, it has zero importance, and for some reason it keeps making headlines? I'm calling shenanigans. Get your brooms. (SouthPark reference. :) )
Re: BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen has left the company
#3Not all that surprising that he leaves after the company was bought by a scamcoin.
Re: BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen has left the company
#4Not all that surprising that he leaves after the company was bought by a scamcoin.
he's also working on his own cryptocurrency, so there's that...
Re: BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen has left the company
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#6So he is no longer seeding?
Re: BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen has left the company
#7Not all that surprising that he leaves after the company was bought by a scamcoin.
I haven't kept up with those news. As a torent user (through a different client, I use qbittorrent) is there anything I should be wary of?
Re: BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen has left the company
#8Not all that surprising that he leaves after the company was bought by a scamcoin.
Its remarkable that a project that had almost a decade of work was bought out by a cryptocoin launched 6 months ago.
Re: BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen has left the company
#9Not all that surprising that he leaves after the company was bought by a scamcoin.
I haven't kept up with those news. As a torent user (through a different client, I use qbittorrent) is there anything I should be wary of?
Nope, BitTorrent, Inc. is just as scummy as its new owners. Both of the proprietary(!) clients it distributes, BitTorrent and uTorrent, are loaded with adware and other garbage. The inventor of the open-source BitTorrent protocol we all know and love, Bram Cohen[0], already left the company late last year to start another company, Chia.Network[1], which is yet another cryptocurrency company.
[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen [1]https://chia.net
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