Bit Torrent Gets More Than A Bit Of Cash

by | Nov 22, 2005

MSNBC is running an article on Bram Cohen, tha man behind Bit Torrent–every jamband fan’s favorite means of procuring live and uncompressed music. See eTree for the definitive collection.

Cohen’s company recently received $8.75 million in venture capital. Here’s how he plans to use the VC’s coin:

We’re setting up a marketplace for selling content online, and it’s going to be both pay-per-download and advertising space. We’re aiming to have some amount of content that you can’t get elsewhere, but we’re aiming to be fairly all-inclusive in terms of if you want to get content online, you can just go to our Web site and get it.