"The content people have no clue. I mean, no clue. The cost of bandwidth is going down to nothing. And the size of hard drives is getting so big, and they're so cheap, that pretty soon you'll have every song you own on one hard drive. The content distribution industry is going to evaporate."

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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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