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  3. The Question that the Bit Torrent Procedure Kindles Bram Cohen was an unusual kid. While other first-graders were outside pl

The Question that the Bit Torrent Procedure Kindles Bram Cohen was an unusual kid. While other first-graders were outside pl

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问题                 The Question that the Bit Torrent Procedure Kindles
    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 of 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 turned 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 (MPA[A]) 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 lawsuit, although an MPAA spokesman says Cohen is under examination for continuing to develop the software "and making it easy to steal copyright material".
By mentioning Napster and the music world,the author suggests that______.
选项 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
答案A
解析 推理判断题。首段末句指出：科恩现在面临一项新任务：反驳好莱坞电影业界的指控——说他编写的一个突破性的软件在威胁着电影业，就像Napster曾威胁音乐界并随后颠覆了音乐界一样。接下来第二段首句对此做出解释：科恩是一个被称为BitTorrent的免费程序的作者，这个程序的下载次数超过2000万次，它奠定了新一代的文件共享技术的基础。这个数字说明科恩发明的BT软件对电影业影响巨大，这也正是作者提到Napster和音乐界的原因，故[A]为答案。从首段末句可以判断出[B]错误，文章提到科恩受到好莱坞电影业界的指控，但并没有说音乐界指控他侵权；作者是将Napster对音乐界的威胁与科恩的BT对电影业的威胁进行类比，并不是比较film industry和music industry，排除[C]；[D]与首段末句内容一致，这是给出的具体内容，不是作者提到它的目的所在，排除。
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