Bram Cohen was on the cover of the 2.21.05 edition of Red Herring. The article is a view into the business of bit torrent, and the future directions there are from monetizing the tech. It seems Bram and some others are working on business plans to provide search services within the context of torrent tracking and have actually formed the Bit Torrent Corporation. The article mentions BlogTorrent, Hurricane Electric and also something I wasn't familiar with from Aelitis which appears to offer Bit Torrent consulting services for businesses. And, oh yeah, they've got a blurb on Prodigem as well:

Prodigem--run by lone-wolf Stanford graduate student Gary Lerhaupt--started a content distribution service for individuals in December. Mr. Lerhaupt's dedicated server acts as a "permaseed" for service users, hosting the full copy of a file that's necessary for a torrent download to continue. He fends off illegal use by offering service by invitation, a la Gmail. At press time, Mr. Lerhaupt doesn't have a PayPal account set up for donations from his happy customers.

By Gary Lerhaupt, 05:32 PM in prodigem | Comments (0)