The peer-to-peer network has also agreed to pay $100m (£53m) in damages to the record industry.
The announcement follows the release of a music industry report that says more than 20 billion music tracks have been downloaded illegally in the last year.
File sharing and music piracy are key factors in the recent decline in record sales, according to the music business.
“We have won another battle in an ongoing war,” said John Kennedy, chairman and CEO of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industries (IFPI). “We move forward with a spring in our step.”
Kazaa follows other sites like Napster which now offers legal downloads.
With ad revenues from the entire planet the bottom line is even more attractive. The money is channeled through a company in Switzerland sharing an address with another company specialising in tax planning.The controversial file sharing site The Pirate Bay is far from the innocent hobby project cofounders Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm want people to think.
The police investigation of The Pirate Bay is about violations of copyright law because the file sharing site helps Internet users share files with copyright protected material.
The police will investigate how ad revenues are managed and if tax is paid. If the prosecutor can show that the site is being run commercially the suspects risk a harder punishment than if it’s just a hobby project.
‘The authors of the law spoke of one year in prison. The maximum penalty is two years’, says prosecutor Håkan Roswall.
The past four months the Swedish company Eastpoint Media have sold ads for The Pirate Bay for an average of €60,000 per month, according to sales manager Luar Busó. The police raid on 31 May resulted in even more visitors to the site and prices for ads went up accordingly.
‘The biggest ads today cost €20,000 and so far we’ve sold four’, says Luar Busó.
Eastpoint sell ads for The Pirate Bay in the Scandinavian market. File sharing is most widespread in Sweden where many people have broadband. But The Pirate Bay runs in twenty five different languages and gets visitors from all corners of the planet.
In other countries other ads are shown. The total revenues are therefore much more than what Eastpoint arrange.
The police have as yetl not return the Piratebay servers that were raided last month. The servers were seized after the US government threatened Sweden
According to the local, Internet hosting company PRQ had demanded the return of both paperwork and all the computer equipment seized by police during the raid, saying that the material had no significance for the investigation and arguing that it was vital for PRQ’s work.
However, Stockholm District Court ruled that they stay with the police a little longer, a decision that PRQ will probably appeal.
A Swedish company is offering insurance against p2p lawsuits and fines. And it’s pretty cheap actually, just $19 US Dollars per year.
So if you get in trouble with the MPAA or the RIAA, your insurance company will handle the bills for you. Now this is a great idea. And on top of paying your bills, you will get a nice t-shirt.
$19 a year for someone to tell me to plead guilty? I don’t think so!
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LimeWire 4.12is released! This is the first major update of LimeWire since 4.10.9 was released over 4 months ago.
LimeWire 4.12is a major improvement to LimeWire, including many new and improved features to keep LimeWire safe, secure, and speedy. This release contains support for ’secure results’, which will prevent spammers from sending search results that could open a browser window. LimeWire 4.12also features the ability to enable content filtering. The core of LimeWire has been completely rewritten to use less memory, resources, and be overall nicer on your computer.
There’s a ton of minor improvements, many of which have been requested for years. Changes like:
Sorting the bitrate correctly.
A prettier LimeWire icon when using alt-tab.
Easier ways for people to change LimeWire’s language.
LimeWire PRO will always show a PRO splash, regardless of the theme.
A prettier setup wizard.
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Not displaying the ‘No Internet Connection’ dialog multiple times.
The ability to append (#) and use that as a default when downloading (contributed by MaTZ!).
A ‘Search More’ feature to get more results without erasing the current ones (contributed by Philip Schalm!).
Automatic configuration of the Windows firewall.
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