Bram Cohen of BitTorrent ranked 3rd most important person on the web

PC World created a list of what it considers to be the "50 Most Important People on the Web," and Bram Cohen is listed at number 3 behind Steve Jobs and the founding trio of Google.

With reports that BitTorrent is responsible for more than 35% of all internet traffic it's no wonder that Bram Cohen, creator of the BitTorrent protocol, and CoFounder of BitTorrent Inc., has recently been ranked as the 3rd most important person on the Web today.

In making the list, PC World said that it "...considered hundreds of the Web's most noteworthy power brokers, bloggers, brainiacs, and entrepreneurs to figure out whose contributions are shaping the way we use the Web."

Now that BitTorrent Inc.'s new legal movie download store, The BitTorrent Entertainment Network (BEN), is up and running, BitTorrent has the power to drastically alter the way that the average guy and gal buys and watches movies at home.

Long the bastion of pirates everywhere, BEN now offers a legal way of getting movie content and thereby drawing in the masses that were previously afraid to do so out of fear of breaking the law. Buying and watching movie content has never been so easy, and so too therefore may just perhaps be able to forever change what our concept of a "video store" is forever.

Without further ado, here's the top 10, check out PC World for the rest of the list.

1. Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin, Executives, Google

2. Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple

3. Bram Cohen, Cofounder, BitTorrent

4. Mike Morhaime, President, Blizzard Entertainment

5. Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia

6. John Doerr, Venture capitalist, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers

7. Craig Newmark, Founder, Craigslist

8. Peter Levinsohn, President, Fox Interactive Media

9. Marissa Mayer, Vice president for search products & user experience, Google

10. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, Founders, YouTube