When I heard that BitTorrent was collecting money from investors, it left me confused because BitTorrent is an open source protocol. It's like hearing that HTTP or FTP was rounding up funds. Fortune.com recently published an article outlining exactly what the BitTorrent deal is all about. It sounds like Bram Cohen, the designer of the BitTorrent protocol, intends to sell media on a commission basis - kind of like what Google Video does.