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Twenty-five years ago, a CYPHERPUNK HERO named Bram Cohen posted a one-line message announcing his new app, BitTorrent. Janko Roettgers marks the anniversary in The Verge with an oral history of how it unleashed a wave of technology and piracy that reshaped Hollywood.
Cohen built the app without search functionality, outsourcing file discovery to third-party trackers so he'd never know what users were actually trading. That’s actually the reason BitTorrent remains the only major file-sharing publisher Hollywood never managed to sue.
Blah, blah, blah, yadaa yadaa yadaa. Legal immunity never became a business though, as Cohen's company eventually landed with crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun in what he calls "an even sketchier exit than it had been all along." Meanwhile, as streaming prices climb, the hackers who built BitTorrent's backbone say piracy is quietly making a comeback
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