You bring up a lot of important points. A lot of these issues are simple and fundamentalistic, but Vinnie just can't seem to comprehend them in pursuit of the almighty dollar.

He complains about spending money to pay for hosting forums and development costs, but he fails to realize that nobody asked him to develop BearShare, or to continue supporting it! It is his decision and his alone.

Unfortunately more and more users are being duped into using his servant, which leads to further frustration. For me, the happy medium would be to turn that connection he uses to host his forums and create his own private, semi de-centralized network, much like Napster! He probably realizes the legal ramifications of this, as Napster has, so he continues to use us as his personal puppets.

Personally I can't stand the integrated browser! There is no need for it in a file sharing servant! Bye-bye secretly installed adware, hello replacement!