Key Insights Merlin AI The Rise and Fall of Torrenting Origins of Torrenting Developed by Bram Cohen in 2001, BitTorrent allowed users to share files without relying on a single server, making downloads faster as more users participated. The Pirate Bay, launched in 2003, capitalized on this decentralized model, becoming a major hub for peer-to-peer … Read more
Last week, I was invited to a conversation by Ziya Taşkent, who organizes monthly talks on “culture.” The talk is in Turkish, but I present a summary of this talk in English: Digital Culture and Everyday Life Digital culture is deeply intertwined with popular culture; both are undergoing transformation in the realms of communication and … Read more
In Istanbul’s traffic, I listened to long YouTube videos a lot recently, and I came across a series of videos claiming that online piracy is back (such as this one: Piracy 2.0: How the Internet Outsmarted the System). I believe these arguments have validity. Here I outline novel forms of piracy, but I think the … Read more