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.

Germany's gold

The Germany throws out to litters the half ton of gold annually. They throw out together with with 24 millions old cellular telephones.

And water on the mill of the hamburgs foundry Norddeutsche Affinerie (he just changes I will name on Aurubis), regaining the gold from points of contact and the arrangements of electric mobile phones, computers itp, the German institution works on full turns in the worst from second world war crisis etc . , exchanging he throws the litter about in the bars of gold. As the agency Bloomberg passes, what the company the year regains 3,5 of this metal worth tones 110 million USD. The similar firm Umicore regains near the Antwerp (Belgium) 6 tons annually.

The recycling campaign undertaken by Philips, the largest in Europe manufacturer of television sets m.in. helps them, and Nokię, the front producer of mobile phones. Philips will give to 2012 r. 1 mld of EUR on the projects of the products which will facilitate the salvage of materials. Nokia tries to convince the users of telephones, instead of to throw out, they gave back old devices to recycling.

Does he as yet hit there only what sixth old mobile phone thrown out in the Germany. Wish, because – as learned counted from Berlinian engineering college, the ton of electronic throws the litter about he contains average 347 grams of gold. And gold beats price records recently.
/source pb.pl