Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business. Show all posts

Weight halt

This bus halt is different than all. The halt is the part of the advertising campaign of Fitness First in the Rotterdam which wants us to inform how much we weigh for the mediation of the shame. It is hard not to become nervous, if you wait for the bus, only after this to to notice as people laugh from your weight.

This is the first this type doubtless the advertisement having on the aim decrease obesity among the Dutch community. The fact extremely disturbing is that the occurrence of obesity in developed countries increases. This was showed among others in England, Sweden, Germany, Holland … the Australia. However there are no reasons to distresses, in the Poland rather we will not meet with such halt.

Mininova


One of the key issues in the recent Pirate Bay trial was the prosecutor's contention that the lads behind the site were raking in something like 10 million kronor (one million dollars) a year. This led defendant Gottfried Svartholm Warg to complain during a court recess: "It's totally absurd, those numbers are totally disconnected from reality." And, for good measure, he took a shot at the prosecutor. "The old bastard's crazy," he said.


Whatever the truth of The Pirate Bay's profits, BitTorrent search engines can rake in quite a bit of cash. Mininova, for instance, earned €600,000 in revenue back in 2006, upping this to a whopping €1,000,000 in 2007. Is it profiting from piracy?
A good business to be in

Mininova is one of the largest such sites in the world (indeed, it claims to be the largest, with over 17 million pageviews a day), but that doesn't mean it tries to hide its contact info or address. It operates as a legitimate business from a canal-side office in Utrecht, which entails certain consequences. One of these is that it is legally required to file a basic financial statement with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce each year, and these statements are available to anyone 1) able to navigate a Dutch-language website and 2) cough up €9.

Mininova does, which would seem to limit the scope for legal action against it. And, given the company's revenue and 2007 working capital of €665,523, it certainly has the resources to put up a fight if IFPI comes knocking.