Download deal.Download Deal: The Motion Picture Association of America and Bram Cohen Bram Cohen (born 1975) is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol BitTorrent, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol. , creator of software used to download movies illegally over the Internet, reached an agreement to have Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. remove links to pirated pi·rate n. 1. a. One who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without commission from a sovereign nation. b. A ship used for this purpose. 2. One who preys on others; a plunderer. 3. versions of copyrighted movies from his Web site, BitTorrent.com. The agreement, which will stop people from using Cohen's search engine to download films, involves connections to content owned by the seven studios that are members of the MPAA MPAA abbr. Motion Picture Association of America . The deal will not prevent all illegal copies from being swapped using the BitTorrent technology. Millions of people already have downloaded BitTorrent software and don't need to use the site. |
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