So maybe he’s not CEO material now that they are fully commercial. Yup CTO or Chief Architect is it.

Should they necessarily be the CEO? Depends what the company is doing.

If I developed some disruptive technology that I had already shared with the world, and now used that popularity to launch a content distribution company, I’m not sure I would want to remain the CEO either. That involves paperwork and dealing with management issues all day. I would be much more likely to a) Remain a controlling or near-controlling amount of stock and b) Work where I see myself doing a combination of having the most fun AND helping the company. In my case, probably directing technology development or something like that.

I support the infrastructure of the internet by paying for my bandwidth. As bandwidth and requirements increase so do the costs respectively. The bittorrent protocol merely utilizes the bandwidth I’m (or anyone else who uses it) paying for.

You make it sound like bittorrent is some internet demon eating all the regular user’s bandwidth. Now if you are behind some crappy firewall, limited community a bittorrent’s use can drag the entire router’s speed. But that is a matter of courtesy not infrastructure.

The difference between Bram and others is that -he- made the program that accounts for 40-50% of the internet traffic. I did not say that he invented p2p, or internet, or mp3 piracy. He just coded something that 80 million people wanted. That distinguishes him from the next potential hired gun from “well known headhunting firm Heidrick & Struggles” that will destroy the company.
He did make a big mistake though: there was no reason to raise 8M and then 25M for this.

He is of course not a genius, it’s called figurative speech. Nobody who does software is a genius, neither Tim Berners-Lee nor Bill Gates. Newton is a genius.

Bram is an excellent programmer but he doesn’t appear to be smart enough to keep the sharks at bay. First navin, then deals with hollywood cartels…what a shame.

Bran Cohen is a genious- he ALONE wrote an program that accounts for 50% of the ENTIRE internet traffic. Now they are firing him!

Now let’s laugh and see how “well known headhunting firm Heidrick & Struggles” will find somebody better!

Also, saying that serving content won’t help in making it a marketable technology is completely false. If they implement it into standalone DVD players or whatever they could have their suppliers on an iplist or something and have certain ports dedicated to certain devices and/or manufacturers so the content would be managed much more efficiently. Plus since it would be legal to have the content on the suppliers servers there would be a lot less hassle.

It would probably be a wise business move for lots of content distributors too because they wouldn’t really need giant new servers in a certain area, they could just use the extra servers or bandwidth throughout their company network throughout the world, not dependent on a certain corporate office or headquarters… That would keep costs to a minimum and profit to a maximum. People will pay if those prices are kept towards the cheap like they are promising. Plus they could start releasing content with uncompromised quality like full 9gb dual layer versions of movies if they add harddrives or something to their dvd players/dvr devices.

The possibilities are endless but only if it’s done in the right way from the beginning.