What Happened to The Founder of Torrents?
With the rise of cheap and easily accessible streaming services like Netflix and Disney+, we've seen a massive decline in piracy. But, within the piracy community, there's no doubt that the soul is still torrents.
2022-02-21 19:00:00 - Logically Answered
Torrents allow pirates to avoid using servers that are much easier to take down as opposed to a decentralized mode of file sharing made possible by torrents. As you would guess, prosecutors and copyright holders aren't very big fans of the creator of torrents, Bram Cohen.
However, despite his identity being known, prosecutors can't really do anything to Bram. You see, Bram never created BitTorrent with the intention of piracy nor does he encourage or promote piracy. He has also complied with prosecutors to take down torrenting links on his website, so there's really nothing to charge Bram on.
This video explains the story of Bram Cohen and BitTorrent and how Bram accidentally created the would of piracy.