Analysts at CacheLogic, an Internet-traffic analysis firm in Cambridge, England, report that BitTorrent traffic accounts for more than one-third of all data sent across the Internet. BitTorrent lets users quickly upload and download enormous amounts of data, files that are hundreds or thousands of times bigger than a single MP3. You might be right, might be wrong." It's only later, when I look over these words in my notes, that I realize he could just as easily be talking about his life.īram Cohen is the creator of BitTorrent, one of the most successful peer-to-peer programs ever.
But you can't always figure out if that's going to work for you or against you. As I ponder my next move, Cohen studies the board, his jet-black hair hanging in front of his face, and tells me his philosophy of the perfect game."The best strategy games are the ones where you put a piece down and it stays there for the whole game," he explains. Players take turns dropping more and more tokens on a grid, trying to box in their opponent. Cohen says he loves Amazons, a cross between chess and the Japanese game Go, because it is pure strategy. Behind his desk he keeps an enormous plastic bin filled with dozens of Rubik's Cube-style twisting gewgaws that he periodically scrambles and solves throughout the day. The 29-year-old programmer consumes logic puzzles at the same rate most of us buy magazines. Cohen picked it up two weeks ago and has already mastered it. We're huddled over a table in his Bellevue, Washington, house playing a board game called Amazons.
"That was a bad move," Bram Cohen tells me.
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