@ Jasper van Weerd: The investment might not be as much as some more prominent tech companies receive, but it is significant, and extremely important for the further development of the BitTorrent protocol. It might even lead to other legal BitTorrent sites receiving funding.

Of course the share of bandwidth within the world was a must, since the power needed to runt the total NW will reach the sky within years, since the internet has been here for 10 years now, (then I think of mass computerizations within the main communities in the world.) what will we have within 10 years from now? cars on the internet with connectors onto the net for routing and services, viruses for cars (since that goes on also), and on and on. So whats the 29.000.000 in investments, its a great opportunity for the BT community, but a blink on the world market.