How BitTorrent Spurred the Streaming Revolution

How BitTorrent Spurred the Streaming Revolution

Bram Cohen, the mastermind behind BitTorrent, claims he didn’t set out to build a pirate ship when he launched the file-sharing product in 2003. All he wanted to do was make it easier to move big stuff around the web—video­game updates, maybe, or the Linux distros that developers liked to swap. But within a year …