BitTorrent has for several years been trying to monetize developer Bram Cohen's brilliant achievement. They've shifted the client from open to closed source, embraced the entertainment industry, and recently launched an official BitTorrent store that didn't excite anyone. They've also had to do battle with ISP traffic shaping, trying to convince ISPs (unsuccessfully) that they should cache content instead of throttling BitTorrent traffic.

Silicon Alley Insider has posted an interview with BitTorrent CEO Doug Walker, who all but admits the fairly underwhelming store may be getting a significant makeover, or could be disappearing entirely. He also touches briefly on Comcast's traffic shaping and encryption, and had this to say about the whole Comcast controversy:He notes that Comcast traffic shaping isn't impacting their commercial 'BitTorrent DNA' service as they encrypt that traffic. He notes that the throttling is impacting mostly open-source clients, though they too have embraced encryption in order to skirt Comcast's Sandvine gear.