What Happened To The Founder Of Torrents?

[@ali_juma]

Chia doesn’t use proof of stake! It uses proof of space and time, a completely different algorithm. It utilises farming hard drive space, rather than staking. It is very different to Solana and Cardano, which are both proof of stake.

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Ah thanks for the clarification

[@jeansalim83]

I actually Farm (mine) Chia which is essentially proof of work, even if like to call it proof of space and time. It's however definitely not Proof of Stake.

[@Xarior]

Essentially chia mining is a gigantic bingo game... The more tickets (HDD Space) you have and the more time you listen to the guy calling the numbers, the higher your chances are.

[@jeansalim83]

@@Xarior it's not anymore since they introduced pools months ago

[@Xarior]

@@jeansalim83 ah okay, thanks for the info

[@Priyajit_Ghosh]

Without Piracy, my childhood would become dull. In my childhood, it was more vicious crime to ask money for buying game to my parents than pirating the games. Majority of the parents won't even accept gaming, and asking money for games is like asking for my ass to be kicked. Long Live Piracy and Pirate Kings. You gave children a chance to play games. You will always be remembered by us.

[@barrdack]

Lol I even bought most of them as an adult they have 0 hours in my steam library but God knows how many months in my heart. I even hate that these game stores keep metadata of my game play activity - a thing I wish was private. I think it is morally Ok to buy the game and then play the pirated version for privacy reasons and if you hate DRM. I disagree with the statement you will be happy by owning nothing -F* that!

[@adii.11]

This comment is is so true

[@michaeljarcher]

On the flip side, before computers children grew up and had great times, being adventurous and playful and also had a thing called friends, where life wasn't dull for one moment. Perhaps also if you could of considered getting a small job to earn money and pay for things you wish your parents could hand to you on a plate.

[@barrdack]

@@michaeljarcher You will own nothing and be happy!

[@clonecrusaderz648]

I resort to piracy cuz I know my family's money is better spent on important things than games

[@doctorcosta]

He should have given the Nobel Prize for creating Torrents.

[@mushfiqurrahman1107]

He should. Yet here we are, where war criminals get nobel prizes

[@lastoutlaw3882]

Agree

[@best.of.cinema]

That’s exactly what I thought 😂👍🏻

[@kapilpande007]

your comment made my day... nothing less than Noble would do

[@chainjail4834]

The true pirate king 👑

[@Goztepe-uf6si]

This guy is my childhood legend. He gave millions kids access to game, music and information otherwise would be impossible to get financially.

[@OmegaProxy]

Yes, but at the expense of the developers and artists.

[@cristianmichael8156]

@@OmegaProxy trust me they get enough money

[@bhateyy_1031]

@@cristianmichael8156 damn we got the same dp bro😆

[@toneymiller4383]

And he gave us movies before they hit theaters

[@cristianmichael8156]

@@bhateyy_1031 love some some cowboy 😌🤙🏽🤙🏽

[@justaweeb14688]

"disney plus is only 80 dollars a year" But the thing is that us pirates don't only pirate one type of content, and not all movies/shows are made by disney. If I had to pay for every game, movie and show I watched, I would be in debt.

[@BurntMarioisreal]

Not all movies/shows are made by Disney...yet (sinister mouse laugh)

[@1738-l1j]

@@BurntMarioisreal cant wait for them to buy ph so I can watch dwarfs run a train on snow white

[@BurntMarioisreal]

@@1738-l1j 💀💀

[@zohaibtariq7351]

F Disney 80 dollars a year???? do I look like the father of elon musk?? I will get kicked from house if I ask my parents to give me money for movies and not study

[@godnyx117]

Exactly. He statement is super stupid and I really wonder how he can't see that.

[@unlinkedcarbon1910]

Torrent ain’t only used for games and entertainment like movies and netflix but also for essential and educational books (pdf), anxiety therapy lessons and many other informative and educational stuff that many people can’t afford or doesn’t have budget for that. The creators of torrent are the real genius and deserve a medal.

[@emptylikebox]

True

[@Morphoidism]

Torrents are also great for large files. Bluemaxima's Flashpoint is around half a tb so using a torrent to download is basically the only pheasible method.

[@chriskay1449]

They desreve a medal for making it easy to steal? They should be locked up.

[@ArabPirate]

@@chriskay1449 fed

[@nathanaelmoh5848]

I pirate e-books almost exclusively. There's an account called TheWorkerBee. I wonder who that person is. His books are of a true intellectual. Almost any obscure book I can think of, it's under that account.

[@vatankumarattri392]

BitTorrent was one of the biggest creation of the century, imagine people getting access to books and data they could never dream of but now they can have it if it is popular enough

[@itsover9008]

@@airmax6 Nope. He is correct because BitTorrent is the protocol which made peer to peer communication popular.

[@jasonthirded]

@@airmax6 There is BitTorrent the program and BitTorrent the protocol that every torrent program uses

[@hodmechanical9707]

True..

[@astral6749]

There's still IRC and FTP servers. Even without BitTorrent, people will still be able to share their files from those. Albeit, it is easier to take down than torrents.

[@joshuajusto3677]

yeah and only like a little percent of people use torrent only those who seek the most can understand how it works

[@FunnyStory2025]

Thank Bram Cohen. You have helped poor people all over the world.

[@gdgd5194]

not only poor people, it also helps that very small minority of people with decent amount of braincells. Instead of supporting a company for shitty game, we can try it out for free and then see if it's worth it

[@0x_jstinFN]

Yh

[@arnaldocaballero7853]

Agree

[@krutikzim]

@@gdgd5194 nice

[@justaguy6216]

@@gdgd5194 Yeah ive torrented games before, judged if I liked them or not, then paid for the full game on steam and played it through that. I will pay when I think the product is worth it, but like a lot of times its not.

[@kennefoma296]

Over here in Africa I grew up playing computer games and watching movies and it was unheard of that one had to pay for them. Without guys like these, I can't imagine what my childhood would have been. Thank you sir.

[@liveelbaraka3371]

Damn is everyone from Nigeria into tech!?

[@meilyn22]

People pay, but very cheap prices. There are people in Nigeria who pirate games, movies etc and sell them for less than $1. They produce CD's in large quantity. Fifa, God of War, Grand theft and other American shows. What they do now is put it in your hard drive instead of selling cds.

[@sidrikelsd]

@@meilyn22 That's awesome

[@lox34xt]

we do not have access to Disney+, Hulu, Paramount etc so the best thing is to torrent the shows haha. thanks to this genius

[@CALLE92JOHANSSON]

The great equalizer

[@rishavagarwal5352]

He is the definition of "Not all heroes wear capes" huge respect to this guy for creating such a platform for file sharing

[@faraz-afridi]

thanks to him..I haven't purchased a single blu ray or DVD since 2012... haven't wasted money in cinema... haven't subscribed to single streaming platform... bless him

[@TheAbinn]

What vpn are you using?

[@Morphoidism]

@@TheAbinn Late comment, but I recommend Mullvad.

[@collinsa8909]

If only hard ware could b pirated also.

[@deadGrlz206]

Torrent are the greatest invention ever. I've watched 100s of movies and TV shows all through torrents. I still do on my phone constantly. Movies today are way too shitty to pay to watch.

[@the-vault-ofheaven44]

agreed

[@coolcat6303]

Depends on the movie. But let’s be real here. Even if all the new films were masterpieces, most of you guys would still torrent (steal) them.

[@best.of.cinema]

I agree even if you wanted to watch on streaming channels you cannot always find what you want

[@Mani-cc5lo]

🤣🤣🤣

[@DaleBouwman]

@@coolcat6303 Yes, I would. Show me a studio that is struggling.

[@Yazevo]

so many games still have a life after their official death because of torrenting - and that includes communities, people willing to pay and host their own servers when the company yanked theirs, I view it as a essential tool that we must preserve.

[@gotija]

And i had discovered so many games than then i'd pay, in the "legal" way i wouldn play it for sure

[@Badkitty24]

Star wars Galaixes is a prime example. I love it..played the crap out of it. It had a future. Then they ruin the game with those 2 huge updates to make it EASIER for console players to play. That killed the game. Playerbase left. They weren't making any money. Servers get shut down. That game you PAID REAL MONEY FOR....is now useless because the company that made it said so. BULLSHIT ! I paid for, i own it, i want to play it whene ever i want! It'd would be like buying a car and owning for 10years, only to have the manufacturer go out of business and close down and with that , their data servers that you car was force to connect to to operate. Now you're car is dead too, because they won't want you driving it if they're not making money from it any long. We really don't OWN ANYTHING.

[@loneshxdow]

*cough* *cough* Fate/stay night Realta Nua *cough* *cough*

[@indranilmajumder7148]

Problem is once the game is not popular enough, download speeds are so low

[@Clonefire.]

I've torrented old games that I already owned, because the cracked version of the game worked after companies shut down their servers.

[@Wittgenstein.]

"Bram believes that copyright holders need to get a life" lol

[@LogicallyAnswered]

For real hahaha

[@Kiwanuka1]

@@bk99 thank you Bram.

[@kSupremeYoutuber]

Well we download their files but they always win something with it like, sometimes i download a game first to see if it is good like (example) Ubisoft cause you will give them 60/100 bucks for a game and it sucks, but if the game is good i will buy it cause we gotta support good stuff.

[@momosaidnineisfine2194]

@@kSupremeKZbinr True but do they really need 60/100 bucks more for a game when they already have too much money to make great games anymore? Unless they cut down the prices hacking those will prevail

[@realspeedghxst]

@@momosaidnineisfine2194 nowdays that the games have in app purchases, and other software has ridiculous prices to license the software, they already generate millions if not billions of dollars, problem is if your country has piracy laws like Germany or US, and also who knows how legal modded APKs are or Vanced YT, I've been pirating for years and I never plan to support these big corporations and spend a single dime on them cus my country doesn't give a shit about pirating

[@chaos.n.cosmos]

I wouldn't have watched more than half the movies I've watched my whole life if it wasn't for torrent. You are a hero and you have my respect sir 🙋‍♀️👍🙌

[@Someonedyer]

He's a true legend. I'm from the middle east and this man helped so many people including me educate ourselves to be better and to get to know other cultures through media/video games.

[@hithummah]

Bram Cohen might not be an internet billionaire, but he's amongst the legends that shaped the internet. Torrenting is basically the blue print for the blockchain concept.

[@keshil8055]

Exactly what I got in my mind, when heard about block chain ⛓

[@etpaprika]

Whether it be Bram Cohen or Linus Torvalds or Gary Kildall, I firmly believe them to be the actual computer geniuses who just wanted the society to benefit from their work and not making money from it, unlike Gates or Bezos or Musks. They made our life alot easier back then and even now.

[@dzidzaichidumba5435]

Is he satisfied nakamoto?

[@QasimAlKhuzaie]

Amen

[@diocre7446]

That is the main reason he don't succeed. That thing is hard to control.

[@Dany_writes]

Give him Nobel, Grammy, Oscar and golden gold awards for his contribution.

[@DmitryDaren]

And the medal of Lenin, of course, no pun intended.

[@Saigonas]

@@zacsdiyguns xddddd

[@geraltnroach]

I hope he get balloon d'or too

[@xana5649]

Hahahahaha

[@mahfoudseraf5995]

@@zacsdiyguns I slap some one for him how about that!

[@XAZRiENX]

I remember downloading a 6-8GB discography of a j-rock band that took exactly 1 year to complete because only 1 -2 person was seeding it occasionally. It was the complete discography with MVs and live performances. I was elated when it was completed but a few years later my hardisk broke and I lost everything. :'( That was my first experience in learning of letting go.

[@HishighnessMrL]

It took me 3 and a half months to download my first anime series Naruto to completion using the 200mb of data we got every month 😂 I'd go as far as saying it was more enjoyable to watch stuff I pirated after it took forever to download than it is now where it takes me a couple of minutes to get any series in Blu-ray 1080p quality.

[@chaos.n.cosmos]

That's some real dedication and determination right there 😳👏

[@salifyanji2893]

😂😂😂

[@MRJMXHD]

Ain't no way lmfaooo

[@jucceldedumo9338]

1 freaking year? Bruh

[@ForsakenAngel11]

Bram is a hero, he took one for the entire internet.

[@northeasternvoice007]

Someone gave this man an Oscar for making our childhood filmy..

[@sumannath806]

Torrent is legendary thing. It defines our time when we didn't have any way to get things from anywhere. Torrent gave us so many things. Thanks for creating Torrent.

[@axt6760]

Cannot thank Bram Cohen enough for what he did. Three cheers to him 👍

[@Haninos]

This man is a legend, he made our lifes much easier. personally, i'd only pay for what it deserves to be bought. i'm also with the idea (Try it before you buy it) which is most game developers should at least consider give us a demo of your game so we decide to buy or not to buy.

[@kaimojepaslt]

back in the day there was much more demos for many games, than these days.

[@TheOnlyIncognito]

@@kaimojepaslt Yes because companies had more to lose back then and worked harder, now they just follow trends and give us garbage

[@firehomefireq8]

The Legend himself, the Savior and the one who deserve to witness his memorial alive and have a temple made out of gold.

[@AkyJugli]

He is our real HERO. Life would have been dull without torrents.He deserves the Nobel Prize.

[@lp9280]

To be honest going after seeders is futile effort. Maybe that worked in dystopian US, but outside of US it was never realistic to go after seeders, there were few test cases where they tried (there was big one when W10 launched), but it was never big issue for seeders. Besides as soon as they tried that, there were explosion of applications which don't even show IP addresses, or mask them, so it became nearly impossible to trace where the seeder is. This is even more true considering that most of people now have dynamic IP addresses meaning that by the time copyright holder collects the data and sends it to ISP, the IP would have changed many many times over. Not to mention that IP in the torrent clients is very inaccurate at best of times and could be shared by many people, multiple household, public access points etc. There was some time when larger national ISPs deprioritised torrent ports, but soon people simply switched to ISPs without bandwidth management clauses and ISPs realised it achieves nothing except losing them clients and these have disappeared. Been using torrents since like 2014 and never bothered with VPN, nor ever had any issues with my ISP.

[@Jacarroll417]

For the record having a Dynamic IP does not protect you. Most ISP's since for like ever have had Dynamic IP's. If a copyright holder needs to know who used that IP at a certain date and time all they have to do is contact the ISP. and have them look in their records. IP's are not as random as people think. Each ISP owns blocks of IP addresses, its very easy to look up what service provider owns what IP. Here in the US ISP's generally just forward the stop pirating letter from the copyright holders. They are required to do this in order to keep Safe Harbor protections (they cant be held legally liable). In some rare cases they might subpoena for the customers info. However it's generally hard to fight these cases in US court, so much so that criminal charges rarely happen. Though they did get a major win against Cox communications for a large sum of money, claiming Cox didn't do enough to stop copyright infringement. But thats why now everyone uses a VPN.

[@raylopez99]

Here in the dystopian USA, even with dynamic IP addresses I've had my ISP give me a warning for downloading a copyrighted work, so the ISPs must keep a log of user connected to any dynamic IP address at any given time. Hence I switched to using a VPN when downloading, and the problem went away.

[@thefamousdjx]

Lol like when Dallas Buyers movie tried to charge Australians who illegally downloaded the movie and the court made it impossible for them to even try that

[@justinc8157]

I had an ISP cut my internet for a month and I had to write a statement that I would not download torrents anymore. I use a private tracker since then (2011) and never had a problem again.

[@jendorei]

Yeah no sorry but you’re wrong. You can easily see the IP of everyone you are connected to. ISPs are legally required to keep records on who was using a given IP at what time, so the prosecutors send the IP along with recorded time. You can’t hide your real IP without smuggling your traffic through a different network, and that’s exactly what VPNs do. From personal experience: My ISP forwarded me a scare letter from a copyright prosecutor. It didn’t have much consequence, but it shows that you were just lucky thus far. Or perhaps some small ISPs in less wealthy countries don’t care about infringement either. But don’t think you’re safe unless you’re using protection.

[@BlindGuardianCz]

Let me put it this way. Those people who are pirating are either: 1. Testing out the game as a demo > if all is good then they will buy it cuz of patches etc,etc 2. People who would not buy the game/movie in the first place - so why even bother?

[@nikunjsingh9169]

This. Extremely underrated. Use to buy games from Steam but got pissed when developers started scamming gamers. The eternal Alphas or buggy Betas.... And if you are unlucky and miss the returning duration, all money gone to waste. Started torrenting and would only pay for games which I actually liked or wanted to support the devs.

[@lhogaming5270]

Trust me! One single hour playing Battlefield 2042 or GTA Trilogy will piss the living heck out of you so bad you'll swear to god you'll never quit torrenting.

[@safs3098]

3. People who can't buy it due to many reasons. Like me, living in third world country where 60$ is a months salary but I could get the game for 5$ worth of Internet

[@wellplayed4497]

@@safs3098 though cost of living is also usually insanely low.

[@safs3098]

@@wellplayed4497 not really, most people can barely make it by with 60$, so you'll actually either starve yourself for a month or eat only bread and water if you wanna buy a game at full price. Life's hard in a poor country, gaming is a privilege not many can afford

[@TeraJeeju]

He is the actual Legend still alive .. people should appreciate his work.

[@-Vlad.The.OneX-]

Im about to run out of memory on my 1TB hard drive. Just want to thank this man. Not only he provided us with free movies, but also made the copyright, movie producers make their contents mor accessible and affordable, they also can be legally abused just like they have been abusing other people.

[@bijayakumarmeher7668]

I bow down to the legend who made my college days awesome, and all the kings that have fallen, yet held high in my heart.. torrent, kickass torrent and piratebay etc were the life lines during the college days..

[@oxid71]

Being a pirate is a lifestyle, growing up everybody was pirating a bootleging cds, if i should pay for movies and music now i'd feel like i'm betrying myself. Bless this man.

[@HarryMbise1]

Definitely. The only software I've ever paid for was Grid: Auto sport. That was for Android and it was $2.

[@MarvoloSalazar]

Amen

[@lewiskelly14]

I am happy to torrent for stuff from companies with no better ethics than tormenting itself, such as EA.

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Interesting viewpoint

[@pamelavalencia7334]

Yes. I only do downloads on softwares from companies I don't support or I couldn't afford.

[@fakename1656]

I download from some companies out of pure spite, won't watch but seed for a while then delete

[@mattwaala]

@@fakename1656 we need more people like you bro

[@tanvirahmad5893]

Or WB, I haven't watched a single one of their movies in theater after what they did to Johnny Depp.

[@bumblebeegamerreal]

Yes, the prices are affordable, but thats only one streaming sevice. Most people pirate, because there are lots of streaming services that add up to an insanely expensive amount. Some of the content is not even on that particular streaming service, some are region locked, and some of the shows disappear like its nothing. Contrary to what people may say, pirating has increased when Disney Plus entered the picture

[@giftedfox4748]

When I was a child, my family was pretty poor. We barely had enough for food and my father was struggling to keep things together as a single parent. It was so bad that we didn't even had Christmas, my father would say our presents was him paying our phone bill, which were these prepaid minute phones we were not allowed to use expect for emergencies. So as a kid I learn how to use torrent to play games my friends were able to get. Allowing me to stay in the loop and not being so pitiful. Pirating is bad and overall a huge loss of revenue for the people that worked so hard to create these things we enjoy. But it did gave me a chance to escape from reality by enjoying games and movies I thought I would never experience. What am I today? Well, I got more into computers and now have years of experience working with them with other businesses, friends, and personal equipment. I am more well off and enjoy what I do, not needing to pirate anymore.

[@lhogaming5270]

Thanks to Bram Cohen, I got $90k worth of software, games, movies, series and books for free and I still get 90% of the content I download by torrenting and always will. Great Job, Bram!

[@uncian0633]

“Rip companies off = PIRATE (prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law)... Rip people off = CEO (protected to the fullest extent of the law)”

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Just become a CEO hahaha

[@barrdack]

The law is for corporations, you are reduced to a corporation when dealing with the law. The only way out is to not be reduced in the first place.

[@jamaly77]

Pirating via file-sharing is actually legal here in Switzerland while torrents are illegal cause of upload/seeding. Another reason why they are far superior to torrents.

[@davel9514]

Ever bought a DVD and then had all your mates round to watch the movie? You paid for the DVD, and then 10 of your friends watched it for free. That's how I see torrenting

[@dabroster8427]

A government ran by rich pricks has created an economy geared for the rich, only benefiting the rich, and a rare lucky few. The American dream is long gone, but they keep reading us the same old bedtime stories to keep us happy. But soon Rome shall fall. Another bloody revolution will be on its way if things don't change.

[@Ali_4445]

I fucking love whoever this guy is, he took the blame of our sins lol

[@chrizmarkdeasis7761]

Exactly!

[@vjs92]

He is the modern day cyber Jesus! lol

[@daniyalahmedqureshi7831]

You made my day!!

[@bernandekussabte1963]

Damn, Im laughing and feel bad at the same time

[@mjbla2752]

The real life Jesus

[@jeffitachi2589]

Here in Kenya torrent is the biggest thing to get movies,books,games because most people can't afford things like Netflix and Hulu.It really has helped us a lot in learning ways of life other live outside Africa and massive entertainment source for us.For that reason we consider this man our hero and legend of information and entertainment sector.Can watch and read any book that a person in the US can access for free 🔥🥇😅

[@AnupomAG]

I've been torrenting for over 7 years and I have to say it helped me a lot. There’s always new movies, Tv series, documentaries, games, softwares, books, online courses and pretty much everything. It doesn’t feel like pirating or illegal infact it never felt that way. It’s just people sharing things. I myself was a good uploader and contributor on a few torrent sites and it's fun. With a dedicated IP you can have advantage and have access to more necessary contents.

[@AnupomAG]

LoL 😂 laughing at my own comment

[@alexk9295]

What's a dedicated ip and what advantages? Like access to a private server where warez are archived?

[@AnupomAG]

@@alexk9295 There are many advantages of didicated ip. You can host your server, ftp also you'll experience a faster site loading.Dedicated ip is unique since it doesn't change. In torrenting Dedicated/real ip is hugely valued. Almost every torrent users have shared ip and only a few with dedicated IP contributes the most. Shared IP to Shared IP peer doesn't connect. There has to be a atleast one dedicated ip peer for every torrent download. If you have a dedicated ip your torrenting will he faster, you'll be able to download many torrents with few shared IP seeders. Also whatever you download will act like a host server and other shared ip peers can download from your PC. There is a little disadvantage having a dedicated ip. Since your IP is static the chances of getting hacked increases.

[@dheerajkashyap7205]

Give this Man a Noble Price for making our life easier

[@Priyajit_Ghosh]

He is the true Piracy King.... No, The Piracy Emperor. Just imagine after creating the Soul Piracy, he is just playing with Laws. I bet even seeing his face will give Copyright holders massive tension.

[@danielberglv259]

I use Torrents all the time. I think most people in the Open Source community do. I am sure that FTP has been used for some illegal data sharing over the years, but that does not mean that there is something wrong with FTP (except that it's a terrible protocol). In older days, video tape was used to share videos within criminal circles such as paedophiles, but we did not blame the VCR or stop using it. Torrents are a great way for people and/or companies to share large sets of data, without having to host large servers to do so. Perfect for things like a small Linux distro or some other piece of software that is not backed by a big company with large servers and unlimited bandwidth.

[@barrybritcher]

Also Usenet

[@PyroShields]

P2P is a genius idea. Sharing files with users across the world. This brings down the cost of having and maintaining network servers. Also it's good to know you can get a rare file that maybe a few users have.

[@MarcelloSpinFishing]

I will always be grateful to this man ... same as the Emule creators. It's 2022 and i am still running both

[@Kalimdor199Menegroth]

Piracy was an essential part of my upbringing, especially through torrents. Being born in a post-communist country, you can imagine that nobody, on a personal level, could legally buy licenses of Office, Windows and other software, much less games and other stuff. They were simply too expensive, and even buying a PC required taking out a loan most of the times. Through a loan I purchased my first PC. We can debate the moral implications of piracy all day, but the fact remains that without it, information and services would have not been available to a large amount of the world population. Piracy was one of the main driving factors in my country's development of the IT industry. Our former president even credited piracy in front of Bill Gates himself back in the mid 2000s.

[@savo4ek228]

So true man, I learned all my IT skillz on pirated Windows, with pirated software. You want/need to learn something - you go to your local tracker and get it. Hell, some of the greatest designers and photo editors I know all started with pirated PhotoShop. Same goes for games, but on a different level - imagine asking your post-soviet parents for a GAME...i'd get called a moron for even thinking about something like that :D Computers were "devices from hell" - exaggeration, but has some truth in it, so asking for games was never an option.

[@Kalimdor199Menegroth]

@@savo4ek228 Until the past couple of years, even our government institutions and many private businesses used pirated software. My parents weren't really like that, I mean they would not call me a moron for playing or wanting to buy a game. But those were times when you couldn't find physical games to buy here because the market was shaped based on the purchasing power and the needs of the people. The vast majority simply could not afford the money to buy a game, as such shops did not have them for sale. You had to import them, and that made them even more expensive. Now that the purchasing power increased, people started buying entertainment too. People buy physical and digital games. People started buying movies and other content until streaming became a thing. Now a lot of them have Netflix or HBO Go or whatever.

[@abhinavgautam6731]

Will never be able to thank him enough, for Torrents. God bless!!

[@amartyakaviraj]

This man deserves an award....the information boom that we are seeing is partly because of him

[@megajohntomahawk9878]

Where to see good website coz my phone got matrioshka virus from the first website i googled.

[@amartyakaviraj]

@@megajohntomahawk9878 try typing for 1337x

[@salifyanji2893]

@@megajohntomahawk9878 😂😂😂😂

[@shamindiniroshika3217]

Thanks man for giving us the access you'll surely be respected among the people some of us we actually don't have money to pay for streaming services 👍

[@sillycookie1982]

I would like to thank this man for my exposure to movies, games and music i had no access to as a child. All hail this hero. We are not worthy

[@NaveenJolster]

90% of the content I use was pirated content starting from os to every essential softwares. Without torrent I would never have gained so much knowledge, experience and happy moments in my life. Really torrent created a Revolution in file sharing field.

[@Edwardo160]

With the existence of piracy, companies are forced to make their product prices reasonable in order to convince people to pay for it rather than pirating. Which is great. Also, as someone who lives in place where credit cards, PayPal aren't available, I can't even have a computer without piracy. I can't even afford buying my music, apps, games, so I'm very thankful to torrents.

[@AkachukwuMadueke]

I just finished watching "ROME" Season 1 and 2 about 15GB downloaded from uTorrent

[@d1scoduck125]

Nice

[@LogicallyAnswered]

I see

[@Mr3344555]

The feds will be there shortly, want a 2 liter fanta with that pizza? 🕴️🕴️🍕

[@avishjha4030]

uTorrent is unreliable and has been previously found to have malware. It is closed source. Use qBittorrent, it's free and open source.

[@thomasdaem]

use qBittorent to download your ISO's next time is more realiable les bloated and it's open source

[@samlebon9884]

This guy is the Internet's Gutenberg; he gave access to the masses what they were forbidden to touch.

[@ibnuabdulahi7465]

Bro i never paid money to download a movie or music thanks to this legend

[@VoidTransmissionTV]

I think a major plus of torrenting is for people in countries where streaming platforms are not a thing. Example HBO Max isn't a thing here.

[@glitchy_star_classes6276]

Here Too.. Spotify just launched this year.. Before that either youtube or piracy. (since youtube app didnt run on background.)

[@salifyanji2893]

Where do you live ? If you don't mind me asking ???

[@ramajyello]

The guys you have been covering lately are literally the backbones of the internet. Love these vids, good job.

[@siddhantvishwakarma2140]

Gratitude to Bram Cohen from the depths of my heart. And to others like him.

[@xana5649]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@daveythehand4964]

Dude was smart as hell to pre-cover his tracks the way he did. Well played, sir.

[@MrSlick-fb6wo]

I've been a pirate since I was 8 years old, back in the early days of the internet and I still pirate to this day. I want to share some knowledge. YOU DON'T NEED A VPN TO TORRENT SAFELY. If you're Internet provider is one that doesn't allow pirating (many still don't monitor it, last year was the first time I encountered one that did when I switched from a small local provider to AT&T) you can easily go undetected without a VPN. When I got AT&T they sent me a warning the first time I torrented a movie so I sat down and figured a free way around it (I can't afford a VPN). It turned out to be super simple. Your internet provider can only detect when you download the torrent link (which is a tiny file size). They can't detect when you are actually "torrenting" and downloading the main file from seeders on your torrent client. So the solution is simple... don't download the link through your own internet. If you have a pre-paid phone like most of us do (cricket, straight talk, metro, boost, etc.) then just download the link on your phone using mobile data then transfer it from phone to computer (or just download a torrent client on your phone like me....I can't afford a TV or computer so I watch everything on my phone). Alternatively if you have a laptop you can just stop by anywhere that has free wifi and download the link then do the actual torrenting back at home.

[@amathis7292]

This man is a hero, I celebrate him the entire month of February.

[@ToxicMothBoi]

To be honest, pirates would just make their own vpn. Its not even that hard. And theres lots of tutorials on youtube about it And i'm a fellow bittorrent user myself. I love this man he is an absolute legend

[@maxscott3349]

How could you trust it though? Either everyone knows who it is and they get shut down, or noone does and you don't know that they're not the cops.

[@zekiz774]

8:40 you made a small mistake there. Yes you have to pay about $100 a year but in exchange you have access to all video content available from every streaming service. Not just Disney+ You would also need to pay Amazon prime, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Crunchyroll. In comparison it's relatively cheap

[@nvignesh]

Not to mention regional locked content, even if you have all that some wont be available in certain countries

[@collan580]

A few years ago when netflix was basically the only streaming platform it was fine, nowadays we have at least 5 big platform all with subscribtion, not to mention program subs and games are also expensive. You easily spend 200+$/month on subs

[@dariussykes5798]

& this is why pirate streaming services are so popular & if you have a vpn & real debrid you have access to every movie you can think of

[@n-steam]

You also don't typically retain any copies from a streaming service.

[@ayieahakz9089]

Because of torrent I've discovered a lot of animes and musics. In my country, local available stores don't even have them, I don't see cd stores that sells full discography of certain bands, especially when they're new. I managed to watch full season of certain shows and even extra of it etc. All stores only sells mainstream stuff and even mainstream stuff limited to really old seasons or might even just be one episodes per cd whcih cost around 10bucks per cd. It really helped my childhood a lot. Thank you legend for creating this and thank you everyone for contributing together.

[@rohitsharma66]

Remember, piracy made the franchise popular Just like GTA , IGI, COD, musics, movies. Without piracy this wouldn't be possible as social media weren't in the mainstream back in those days. We, 90s were cautious about the expenditure and i often used to lend my friends games, movies rather than purchasing.

[@soroushnajafi7264]

I think the problem with streaming services at this point is that it’s become more and more like cable the thing that streaming services were supposed to fix because let’s say you have one streaming service right you don’t have all the content all the content is divided up into different streaming services and for each of them you have to at least pay $10 and that adds up so I think if they really wanted to fix piracy streaming services need to come together more and create more unification in the community and society in general and the reason why music worked was because when you have a music streaming service you have 90% of all the music in the world at least it’s not like oh for this song I’m gonna have to go somewhere else

[@stuartburns8657]

This. I pay for Netflix and we have Disney+ and Amazon prime (UK) Disney is much better than I expected, but constantly p155ed with UK netflix vs US version. No longer use vpn, gone back to tormenting stuff. As the OP said, streaming too fragmented, and what was once an opportunity to seriously hurt piracy, seems to be driving ppl back into its arm, as who wants to pay for 10+ services costing £100+ pm ?

[@spoich]

Another aspect of that is that the service is fundamentally different. Streaming is streaming. And a large amount of people still want to have their files locally, so that they can use it however they want, play it on any device they want and with any program they want. The day a service allows me to download drm-free movies and series is the moment i stop torrenting.

[@stuartburns8657]

@@spoich yup. Have a large multi Tb disk connected to my home media player. All my favourite 80's, 90's, 00's and onwards tv series and movies. Cant be banned or modified to to woke and political madness and towards sensitivities lol

[@traviswallace]

Capitalism won’t allow this at all. After all, streaming service providers are business oriented. Capitalism can’t just have a whole pie, it’s gotta have multiple and eat it too.

[@soroushnajafi7264]

@@traviswallace I’m not saying they should provide it for free all I’m saying is they should have business agreements where they offer package deals to make it worthwhile for the end-user and alternative revenue Models should be things that they consider like ads or saying that you can watch any movie but you can only watch a certain amount each month and if they’re not willing to do this or even explore it then piracy is some thing that they’re going to have to live with

[@guido69x]

Its all about Sharing!!! And that was huge!Everybody with internet all over the world was able to share their files!!! For collectors and enthusiasts that was and still is a huge deal!Not as much to record on cd or dvd and make money out of it,but for personal use or just to complete a collection or even to learn something new!

[@Victor-kt6qn]

With every company making their own streaming site, while raising their subscription prices every year. Torrenting and pirating is definitely gonna make a comeback.

[@ericvandruten]

Very first sentence: "with the rise of affordable streaming services..." Me: excuse me?

[@johnnymartinjohansen]

Here in rural Northern Norway, getting the newest games wasn't easy, and getting to watch most TV series was even harder. So torrenting became quite popular, simply because it was the only viable way to get what you wanted. Nowadays, with easy options to buy games at release (ie Steam, Playstation store, etc), and lots of different streaming services, I don't think I know a single person who's torrenting anymore. Heck, most youths doesn't even know what it is, it seems. Of course many was pirating to save money, but in my circle of friends, accessability was the key word.

[@sohamparekh]

Bittorrent is a protocol. You shouldn't introduce it as "torrenting is something that makes piracy easier" There are several genuine use cases for the protocol. Not to mention, it's a pretty cool one.

[@tbjay5159]

This man deserves the noble award ❤️

[@badgerden7080]

Nobel.

[@theremixproject907]

The combination of the MP3, similar video compression software and Bit Torrent file sharing nearly dismantled the entire entertainment industry. Adopting streaming technology only became a reluctant alternative when the accountants pointed out the high cost of using the court system to battle piracy meant the only true winners were the lawyers.

[@arsims1]

Torrent should never be stopped on Internet. It must be all legal. Torrent is very good way to share content.

[@IOSARBX]

Logically Answered, This is perfect! I subscribed right away!

[@julianpillay2891]

I think Bram is a very talented individual and a huge thanks to him from my end!

[@plex5710]

8:41 Gotta correct you on this one. Reliable and good VPN's cost arround 3$ per month (express is very expensive for a vpn provider). If you consider this to be a 40$ per year license to download whatever digital material you want, for which some people pay hundreds of dollars it makes a lot of sense to me. When compared to the price of subscription services for movies/games and music. You would be looking at 240$ for netflix in good video quality for a year. 120$ for spotify premium for a year and 120$ for xbox game pass a year which comes out at about 500$ per year for just 3 streaming services which certainly don't have every movie, game or artist you could think of.

[@noonelistensus5496]

It was sponsor spot.

[@altec3600]

I still can’t believe that my CS 100 professor, Barry Cohen, who happened to be the dean of computing at NJIT was also the father of the founder of BitTorrent. Didn’t believe him at first but a simple google search changed all that. I’ve used torrents so much in my earlier years that I would’ve never guessed I’d be anywhere close to the founder of it all

[@justaweeb14688]

Did you tell him you pirate? lmao

[@audaciouspert1772]

Duh. The founder of BitTorrent belonged to both my dept and university. University at Buffalo +1 , NJIT 0. lol

[@retrictumrectus1010]

@@audaciouspert1772 "father of the founder"

[@TheSoundChronicles]

The guy who made history and change the world but unfortunately nobody knows him.

[@wokemaster1929]

To those of us outside America Europe, Australia .basically us in developing countries, this man made it possible to access movies, shows, etc.. internet is a luxury and not like opening a tap for water in the west, streaming prices are massive. Thankyou ❤

[@melcor88]

An $80 dollars/year subscription to disney+ will give you access to all the content available on disney+ A $100 dollar/year subscription to a VPN can give you access to all the content available on every streaming plataform (disney+, netflix, hbo etc.) Theres no disparity.

[@LogicallyAnswered]

True

[@robinsattahip2376]

With greedy corporations charging for 50-year-old TV shows and movies, I don't feel the least bit of guilt about downloading anything I physically can.

[@arasakaa]

If someday I became rich enough to be able to afford games and streaming services, I'd still pirate. As long as something is free and not too inconvenient I see no reason to pay for it. It became to inconvenient to pirate music and almost free to get them legally, So music piracy died The same cannot be said for movies and games, I'd argue that pirating a game is more convenient because of the implantation of DRM in uncracked games which destroys performance.

[@devangmaheshwari3902]

You are so ethically wrong. If you use the service you need to pay. You better need moral policing.

[@jeffreyscottsgames9308]

@@devangmaheshwari3902 rich people need better moral policing when they lead by example we will start our moral compasses back in the right direction again.

[@jeffreyscottsgames9308]

@@devangmaheshwari3902 and im not talking about this guy. I support what hes saying. But just dont support the greedyness of streaming services lately. They dont deserve the money they dont even have all of what everyone wants why wouldn’t we use torrenting ??

[@thecatalystboi3579]

There are so many developers working day and night developing games at minimum wages. One day if you become financially stable to afford games then you should; just to respect the time and effort they put in it :)

[@arasakaa]

@@thecatalystboi3579 At the big companies, These devs get paid regardless. Me pirating a game will not make their salaries lower. Indie devs however are a different story.

[@sauceontoes3457]

When i was a kid i didn't have any kind of bank account or a debit/credit card. Without them i couldn't download my favorite games. Torrents made it so easy for me to create some memories with my games.

[@bagofwords6653]

Piracy helped me a lot while doing my post graduation projects in finding many copyrighted papers for my research that I couldn't afford to subscribe

[@tigartar]

8:50 mark I just want to add the reason why they are more likely to pay for a VPN then just hulu If hulu offered everything then people would gladly switch to save 20 bucks but hulu doesn't offer everything their selection of shows alone is rather limited and for many they cant use hulu unless they use a VPN to get a us based location to access it in the first place. The VPN comes in handy because sure it might cost 100 dollars a year or more but they can use it for all kinds of content not just a small selection of services, hence my point on another video of yours about this that if there was a service that provided music games shows movies apps and so on all on 1 platform for a reasonable fee that that would most likely kill torrenting or illegal downloads for most people Imagine paying 20 a month for a service that lets you play every game on steam/microsoft store/origin(and so on) while listening to every song currently found on yt while watching every show found on every streaming platform all from the ease of effort of a single program/app. No need for a browser/20 different launchers to watch your show while playing a game on the side no need to hunt down non virus infected copies of a niche program you want to use once or twice but don't want to pay 90 dollars for its all there in 1 location. If we ever reach that point(we probably wont given how every company wants to have a streaming service we will prob end up back to the same spot as cable was at) then piracy as we know it today will most likely die off big time.

[@faryalkhalid5812]

God bless him.. He just made the pandemic easy with access to movies, books and softwares.

[@rustymustard7798]

Torrents are absolutely essential for people with poor, intermittent rural almost broadband connections. If it wasn't for torrent technology i wouldn't have an OS as the only way to download a 5gb Linux ISO is p2p when your connection drops as frequently as every few minutes. Oftentimes it's the ONLY way i can actually get something large, even if i own a product key for it it's often undownloadable with my connection and i'm forced to find a copy on a torrent. This has everything to do with the fact that i simply can't download 1GB+files without a connection dropping. If it drops 900mb into a 1gb file, well, that's 900mb of my data gone and i've got to try again. I fail 10 times and i'm 1/5 of the way to my data cap and still have no 'free' software. It costs like $50 in dozens of GB of data to try and download a 'free' version from failed attempts when torrents just pick up where they left off, no connection for 5 minutes? No problem, a 1gb file takes 1gb of bandwith to download, not 10-25gb of fail. Y'all egghead silicon valley city slickers think there's a 5g hotspot every 10 feet across the world when 'big braining' these ideas but fail to account for the fact that 25% of America has no access to broadband, another 10% lack reliable broadband access such as myself. Now America isn't exactly a small struggling third world upstart agrarian society, we've GOT all this fancy modern whizbang tech to connect everyone, but the quality of connectivity shadows the wealth and income disparity and inequality. And the lower income you are, the more you end up paying for basic services. I pay the same amount i'd pay for my connectivity if i lived in say, LA with 5g brain cookers every 10 feet i'd get a solid 2mbps liie clockwork day and night, making the service more valuable and useful. In my situation though, i end up paying the same amount to get 1/10th of the quality, speed, and sometimes availability because i live in a lower income area. Rich people in rich places get cheaper rates effectively while paying like 1% or less of their income than someone like me who spends 10-30% of my income on 1/1oth of the quality. It limits my opportunity to participate in the world most of you take for granted, no zoom calls, mujltiplayer anything, streaming, uploading long form content to youtube or other platforms so i can't even record this rant in a video and upload it as commentary, it'd take days to get it online. The missed opportunity costs such as this is much greater than just the fact that i make 10 times less and pay 10 times more for connectivity. The same goes for groceries, economically depressed area, we pay 30-50% more for basic items than in Scottsdale, AZ, where ONE HOUSE is worth more than the entire town close to where i live and everyone lives like a bitcoin scam ad flexing lambos and armani and all that. Meanwhile i struggle to afford shoes and socks without holes in them because everything has a 'poor people' tax on it. If everything didn't average out to costing twice as much for the same products and services it'd be the equivalent of doubling my income. If i at least got the quality of service i paid for, it'd provide economic opportunity. Poor people wouldn't be so poor if they had equal access to infrastructure and basics. Ironically, i find that companies not offering their products as torrent downloads shifts a lot of sales to piracy, since there's no other option. I can't download fusion360 right now because my connection won't stay active for 10 minutes, nevermind the 10 hours it'll take at like 50-100k when i try to get it from the official channels. If i want to use their FREE LICENSE software i'm STILL forced to go find a torrent of it that hopefully someone is sharing. Lots of open source projects and orgs offer torrent downloads thankfully, but it's something that the corporate world should take note of. I NEED tools to work on art and 3d printing that i can't even buy because companies don't offer the only means i have of obtaining it, leaving tor connections and humming sea shanties for a day or a week, however long it takes me to get a several GB installer. TL;DR There's NO WAY my rural internet connection is stable enough to use official channels, leaving 'piracy' through torrents my only option to obtain software i'm licensed to use because official providers won't offer torrents.

[@maxscott3349]

DSL gang

[@rustymustard7798]

@Clau007 lol, because the companies who'd employ it are the same out of touch eggheads who think everyone has a solid 1gbps constant connection 24/7 As far as i'm concerned this is the equivalent of digital 'hostile design' making it inherently more difficult to impossible for users with bandwidth disadvantages to have the same opportunities. Wait till this is STILL an issue when the 'metaverse' gets mass adopted and it'll be like the smartphone disparity. I don't know how many times now that i couldn't perform some essential function that requires a phone and a solid connection as i didn't own a smartphone until just a few years ago because there's no point in getting a phone when my area has no connectivity. I ended up having to buy a 'burner' type phone to bring to town and use on wifi to perform a few tasks i couldn't do on my desktop, or with such unreliable internet. It's gotten a bit better since then but i still have like 1-2 bars of signal at home on a good day, it sometimes takes hours of failed attempts to even do something as simple and common as post a reel on instagram. It took me HOURS and abut 10 attempts to post a reel advertising my new art piece. Some days i can't even post at all, instagram fails at low bandwidth and throws a bunch of errors before making me start over.

[@rustymustard7798]

@@maxscott3349 Screw you fancy rich people and your DSL lol, i wish i had that kind of fast reliable service, i'm tethered through a distant '4g' hotspot with 1 bar of signal at best, and it often kicks down to 3g or 2g when the wind blows up dust, there's humidity, or a deer farts too loud. All those wired landline services end miles away from me where the paved roads end.

[@thoraero]

Since I started working, I started paying for games and programs on my computer. But I can't imagine what my teenage years would have been without torrents.

[@CJNG_1]

Exactly if I had money during my teenage I would have bought the original content instead of pirating that games.. Anyway my childhood was fun and i can't imagine how it would have been without torrents.. Lol 🤣🤣

[@jakemangabay1879]

I think it's the companies' own disadvantage if they totally shutdown piracy. First, piracy gives popularity to software/apps. Without it, only rich people will know those things. Most likely, if all are paid, only rich people will buy. But with piracy, rich people will still buy (to avoid virus) plus, even the less rich people will also buy after having a good experience with the software. For example, many Minecraft players start with pirated copies but later buy a license simply because they really enjoyed it and they want to play on servers requiring a legit copy. How can we say that those pirated copies are losses to the companies when in the first place, they won't initially consider buying them if they are expensive? For a child growing from poor country, it's very unpractical for me to buy games where I can not gain benefits close to education because it will just distract me from doing more important things. I will just play outside with my friends. Second, this encourages families with less profit to buy computers. Who would buy computers if they can't even buy every software there? No software, computer is useless. And no computer, of course no software. This is why Android has a lot more users globally because aside from the gadget price, there are more free apps available and piracy is easier. I'm not saying that android is better than ios nor piracy is better. But with these, a lot of potentials are unlocked on all sides.

[@Jjarret]

If not for torrenting, cyberpunk would of been dead on arrival

[@LogicallyAnswered]

😂

[@Sircliffe]

How much would all the streaming services together cost in a year if you wanted to be able to watch all the movies and series you like. $100 per year for a VPN is a tiny expense compared to +$700 you would pay otherwise.

[@LogicallyAnswered]

True

[@narindrasudama8349]

This generous guy saved me and alot of people, hats off to him💯

[@swetanksingh]

He is the real hero of humanity. He has made available things that most of the people on internet would never have afforded. Thanks to the genius man..

[@jepbarhalmyradov9135]

Why would I pay for VPN when I can pirate them too 🙄

[@skafabafa]

I would not even watch Disney if they paid me 80 dollars a year. Piratebay is still more than what all paid streaming services combined has to offer.

[@terriblefrosting]

I knew this dude (Bram) back in the day (SF club scene). SUPER socially awkward back then, but all in all a good guy. He wasn't about the crime, just about making things better and satisfying his curiosity. And in my opinion? He did.

[@salifyanji2893]

What does SF mean ? If I don't sound too ignorant ( too lazy to do a Google search )

[@gerwyntiberius1918]

They hate people getting anything free, saving money or increasing our quality of life.

[@odisclemons9700]

He was 100% right. I remember how bad mp3 players were before the iPod. But when they first came out you couldn't use iTunes without a Mac. I refused to get a Mac so I looked around trying to find something convenient the I could use to buy my music legally and I couldn't find anything. I ended up pirating just because it was convenient.

[@TheOnlyIncognito]

This man deserves a statue, no joke. Bram Cohen helped millions who were/are struggling financially by making a home for uploaders and those downloading who just wanted to see/hear what other people paid to see/hear but couldn't do so due to financial difficulties.