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Bram Cohen was an unusual kid. While other first-graders were outside playing, he was writing computer code. By junior high, he could solve Rubik's Cube in a few minutes. A college dropout, he went on to co-found a hacker's convention in San Francisco. "I was always really weird," he says. Yet it was only two years ago, at age 27, that he learned why. Cohen says he has trouble examining his thoughts and making eye contact but has learned to control his symptoms using behavioral psychology. Now he has a new task: warding off accusations by the Hollywood film industry that a breakthrough piece of software he wrote is threatening the movie business the way Napster menaced—and subsequently revolutionized—the music world.
Cohen is the author of a free program called Bit Torrent, which has been downloaded more than 20 million times and underpins a new generation of file-sharing technology. BitTorrent addresses a couple of the biggest problems of file sharing—that downloading bogs down when lots of folks access a file at once, and that some people download content but refuse to share with others on the network. BitTorrent eliminates the bottleneck by having everyone share little pieces o a file at the same time—a process techies call swarming. And the program prevents leeching since folks must upload a file while they download it. All this means that the more popular the content, the more efficiently it zips through the network—bad news if you're a movie studio trying to hinder the trading of films like The Incredibles. Says Andrew Parker of the Web-tracking firm CacheLogic, "It has tumed the download world on its head."
Hollywood has good reason to be worried. BitTorrent downloads account for one-third of Internet traffic, according to CacheLogic. So-called tracker sites post links to movies, video games and episodes of TV shows, the content of which is then traded at express speeds. With more folks logging onto the internet via broadband connections, online trading of movies and TV shows is surging. Downloads of feature films alone are up 175% in the past year, says BigChampagne. In response, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) recently filed dozens of civil suits against tracker sites in the U. S. and Britain, as well as criminal complaints against sites in France. The industry is hoping that in a case scheduled for next month, the U. S. Supreme Court will rule against firms that produce file-sharing software, such as Morpheus and Grokster. Neither Cohen nor BitTorrent is named in the awsuit, although an MPAA spokesman says Cohen is under examination for continuing to develop the software "and making it easy to steal copyright material."
1. According to the passage, Bram Cohen .
A. is fighting with mental problems
B. dropped out because of the pressure
C. indulged himself in computer games
D. is a really smart computer eccentric
2. By mentioning Napster and the music world, the author suggests that .
A. Cohen's program has a profound effect on the film industry
B. Cohen is accused of an invasion of the rights of the music world
C. Hollywood film industry cannot compete with the music industry
D. Napster is a great program which has revolutionized the music world
3. The phrase "bogs down" (Line 4, Para. 2) most probably means .
A. to stop
B. to get stuck
C. to lose content
D. to be in force
4. We can infer from the passage that .
A. BitTorrent allows people to share files
B. the Incredibles enjoys great popularity
C. Napster lays a foundation for file-sharing
D. CacheLogic is a trader in Web download
5. What action did the film industry take to deal with free download of films?
A. It has masked links to films from some websites.
B. It has brought accusations against some companies.
C. It is ready to prosecute Cohen for his free file.
D. It has taken an appeal to a higher court.
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hacker [ˈhækə(r)]
n. 電腦黑客，企圖不法侵人他人電腦系統的人
subsequently [ˈsʌbsɪkwəntli]
adv. 隨後，其後，後來
psychology [saɪˈkɒlədʒi]
n. 心理學，心理狀態
bottleneck [ˈbɒtlnek]
n. 瓶頸，障礙物
breakthrough [ˈbreɪkθru:]
n. 突破，突破性進展
response [rɪˈspɒns]
n. 響應，反應，回答
1. Cohen says he has trouble examining his thoughts and making eye contact but has learned to control his symptoms using behavioral psychology.
結構分析：本句主幹結構為 Cohen says...，後面均是賓語從句成分，其中he為賓語從句的主語，後面有兩個並列謂語，由but連接；using behavioral psychology為表方式的伴隨狀語，修飾 control。
參考譯文：科恩說，他在控制思緒和與人的視線接觸方面有障礙，不過已經學會用行為心理學來控制症狀。
2. Bit Torrent addresses a couple of the biggest problems of file sharing—that downloading bogs down when lots of folks access a file at once, and that some people download content but refuse to share with others on the network.
結構分析：本句主幹結構為 Bit Torrent addresses... problems...。破折號後面是兩個並列的同位語從句，作 problems的同位語，其中第一個從句中的when引導時間狀語從句。
參考譯文： BitTorrent解決了文件共享遇到的兩個最大的問題——當許多人同時提取同一個文件時，下載速度就會變得緩慢不堪；再就是有些人只管下載文件內容，卻拒絕與別人共享。
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