I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. I'm very, very good at writing protocols. I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.

The deal was with the seven largest studios in America. He is also an assembly puzzle enthusiast. He claimed he learned the BASIC programming language at age 5 on his family's Timex Sinclair computer.

Bram Cohen (born October 12 1975) is an American computer programmer best known as the author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol also known as BitTorrent. He is also the co-founder of CodeCon organizer of the San Francisco Bay Area P2P-hackers meeting and the co-author of Codeville.