I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

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.