Monday 20 August 2018

BitTorrent inventor walks away after TRON acquisition


BitTorrent inventor, Bram Cohen, appears to have quietly left BitTorrent Inc, after its acquisition by TRON earlier this month. TorrentFreak reports that Bram Cohen has severed ties with BitTorrent Inc, the company that he founded in 2004, after inventing and launching his Torrent protocol three years earlier. There has been no official announcement from TRON or the BitTorrent inventor on this development. TorrentFreak received an auto-response after trying to reach out to Cohen’s BitTorrent email, it became clear that the address was no longer active. Cohen later confirmed that he is no longer involved with TRON, meaning that BitTorrent’s integration…

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https://ift.tt/2nQIBMr Matthew Beedham August 20, 2018 at 06:00AM

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