Tag: BRAMCOHEN

There seems to be a little battle brewing down in video download land. Apparently BiTorrent's creator Bram Cohen had a few strong words against the team behind Joost at the recent VON New Video Summit earlier this week. Bram said that Joost was doing things the old media way, and not being innovative enough with their channel based concept. Bram believes that channels are just one of many ways ...

Whoa, didn't see this coming--but in hindsight, maybe I should have. BitTorrent, the company behind the peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol of the same name, has purchased uTorrent (properly µTorrent, but I'm too lazy to type the mu), one of the very best BitTorrent clients for Windows. uTorrent is known for being full-featured but having a tiny executable size and memory footprint. In their ...