An informative report in the New York Times yesterday informed us that Bram Cohen, the man that created the uber-popular download utility BitTorrent, is to join - after recruited him to work on the developer's content delivery system.

"When we looked around to see who was doing the most interesting work in this space, Bram's progress on BitTorrent really stood out," commented Newell. "The distributed publishing model embedded in BitTorrent is exactly the kind of thing media companies need to build on for their own systems."

Such a system as BitTorrent, and related technology, could work wonders as part of a distribution system such as Steam - especially with the launch of 2 looming - as such peer-to-peer file sharing, if properly implemented and controlled, could lighten the load on Steam's notoriously unreliable and overworked servers. More on such matters as we get it.

By Luke Guttridge