Bram Cohen — American Scientist born on December 29, 1975,

Bram Cohen is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer 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 and organizer of the San Francisco Bay Area P2P-hackers meeting, and was the co-author of Codeville... (wikipedia)

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.
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.
You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag.
It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.