"Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur's."

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Source: The BitTorrent Effect by Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. January 01, 2005.

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Bram Cohen

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Bram Cohen is a computer programmer best known for creating BitTorrent, a protocol that revolutionized file sharing and decentralized information distribution.

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