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Described BitTorrent file distribution and its tit-for-tat-style peer incentives, piece exchange and load-distribution mechanisms in the 2003 peer-to-peer economics workshop paper.
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Bram Cohen
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Cohen: incentives build robustness in BitTorrent
Described BitTorrent file distribution and its tit-for-tat-style peer incentives, piece exchange and load-distribution mechanisms in the 2003 peer-to-peer economics workshop paper.
Scientific scope
The record is Cohen's sole-author 2003 workshop paper. It documents the system design and its claimed incentives, not every later client or protocol extension; the reported robustness remains scoped to the evaluated design and assumptions and is not treated as universal or adversary-proof.
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People and systems
Bram Cohen
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.