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.

He should have given the Nobel Prize for creating Torrents.

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.

"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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 🙋‍♀️👍🙌

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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..

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 🔥🥇😅

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

Give this Man a Noble Price for making our life easier

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

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

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 👍

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

nice explanation, easy to understand. i hope this channel grow more!

Piracy or no piracy, You sir made smile n create childhood memories for millions of kids across the globe including me.Respect ✨

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.

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

Found BitTorrent in around 2010 and it blows my mind.. never thought such method exists.. thanks dude

That was absolutely fascinating! I really didn't know much about how torrents came about. Though, I do have to say the thumbnail is a little misleading. But I subscribed anyway so 🤷🏼‍♂

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Legend, I remember bit torrent and u torrent back in the days, downloaded sooo many games through this was unbelievable as a child.

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.

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.

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!

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.

The real legend that we never had a chance to for his immense help to the humanity. 🙏❤🎩

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.

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

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 ❤

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.

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

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

Thank you Bram, I got into less fist fights, drunk, drugs, sexing around less trouble overall just watching few movies in a week. It was just me and my movies just seeing stories around the globe, and exercising my dreams.

Thanks the inventor did not get problems from the community around the product. Thanks for the video!

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

This man deserves the noble award ❤️

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

This man is a legend!! Whether or not he has a fan following around the globe

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

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.

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.

bittorrent has been a great part of my life. I discoverd this around 2005 and it was ground breaking. I used it for japanese music videos and anime.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I remember buying the btt token and holding it for a season but then they apparently made a new btt token and the old one lost all of its value in a day. There was some kind of extremely convoluted way of migrating your tokens I remember just selling them off

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.

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.

Thanks to him I learned so much from the internet. He opened the flood gates of knowledge

This guy is true legend . Who help people connecting all over world.

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