File sharing's new face

By Seth Schiesel
The New York Times

Share
- Digg
- Del.icio.us
- Reddit
- Facebook
- Google
- Newsvine
- Yahoo! Bookmarks
- Twitter
- Stumbleupon
E-mail
Print

Related Stories: FCC nears vote on TV 'broadcast flag'
October 28, 2003; Free vs. fee: Underground still thrives
May 29, 2003; File swapping shifts up a gear
May 27, 2003; Dot-com dropouts share open-source love
February 18, 2002

After working for a parade of doomed dot-com start-ups, a young programmer named Bram Cohen emerges as the face of the next wave of Internet file sharing.
The New York Times

The story "File sharing's new face" published February 12, 2004 at 2:19 AM is no longer available on CNET News.

Content from The New York Times expires after 7 days.

Latest tech news headlines

Venture capitalists confidence level takes a third quarter hit
Posted in News - Digital Media by Dawn Kawamoto

October 15, 2008 12:26 PM PDT
Tesla Motors replaces CEO, will do layoffs
Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica

October 15, 2008 12:25 PM PDT
Secunia exploits security suites flaws
Posted in News - Security by Robert Vamosi

October 15, 2008 12:07 PM PDT
See all headlines

RSS Feeds

Add headlines from CNET News to your homepage or feedreader.

More feeds available in our RSS feed index.

Inside CNET News

Scroll Left Scroll Right

Webware
Adobe fends off rivals with Flash Player 10
The incumbent power in rich Internet application technology just got a little more powerful. Flash Player 10 now has Silverlight 2 to reckon with, though.
Gallery
Photos: Solar business heats up the Golden State
The Open Road
Open source for president? Get real
We're voting for a president, not a software preference. There are bigger issues in front of the U.S. president than whether the government adopts open source.
Beyond Binary
Windows 7 equals some strange math
Although Windows 7 was also the product's code name, the forthcoming version of Windows is not Microsoft's seventh iteration, and it won't carry the version number 7.0.
Video
Apple laptop redesigns and a lower price
News - Digital Media
Who loves an economic crisis? Yahoo Finance
Sites with financial news and data saw record numbers of visitors in September, according to ComScore. Just wait for the October tally.
Video
Apple's latest MacBook Pro
The Social
Facebook announces 25 developer grant finalists
They now have a chance to apply for $225,000 in grant money in the FBFund developer competition's final round--but only if they successfully build the apps first.
News - Cutting Edge
'60 Minutes' video: Drone warfare in Iraq
UAVs like the Predator are a highly valued asset for the U.S. military as it pursues "fleeting and perishable" targets. Lesley Stahl reports.
Gallery
Photos: 'Popular Mechanics' breakthroughs
Webware
Eventful raises $10 million in Series C round
Event planning site, Eventful, raised $10 million in Series C funding in the hopes that it will expand internationally and become profitable. Will it work?
Green Tech
Home energy monitors getting wise to solar
SolarCity updates its solar panel monitoring software to include home electricity usage, while Open Energy is creating a touch-screen device to track energy usage and production.