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September 30, 2005
Bit Torrent to go commercial?
This is great news for time-shifters (and others). Bram Cohen, author of the much-loved Bit Torrent maxi-file sharer, has received $8.75 million in venture capital funding to build the program into a commercial distribution tool for media companies. Umm. Assuming, of course, that in commercial negotiations, he doesn't cave in to what will undoubtedly be huge pressure to apply digital rights management to the existing version.
Posted by cw at September 30, 2005 09:58 AM