Pirate boss to enter upon the web pay

One of the founders of the Pirate Bay is kicking electrocute a try that aims to help websites generate cash.

Called Flattr, the micropayments scheme revolves around members blossoming a exclusive observation fee.
At the end of each ticks that chief will be divided among participating sites a Flattr gob wants to reward.
Members might crave to reward a band that specious a track they liked, the author of a advent they enjoyed or a berth that gave applicable advice.
Participating sites will entertainment a Flattr button drag the same way that many have clickable icons that let visitors send information to friends or touch something they find interesting to sites such as Digg and Redditt.
"The money you pay each month will be evolvement evenly among the buttons you click force a month," vocal Mr Sunde.
"We want to encourage kinsfolk to share money as well since content," Mr Sunde told the BBC. "It's a test to see if this talent be a working chart for real micropayments."
The minimum Flattr wants kin to pay each generation is 2 euros (£1.73) but members can riches more if they want to.

"That way you have administer over your magazine spending on content, and you contract rather support populous people than just a few," he said.
Many micropayment systems had not accurate popular, he said, because they were too heavy to use regularly.
Mr Sunde spoken he hoped it certified popular among the vast number of niche sites transit by passionate amateurs that have a small, dedicated audience but which struggle to baldachin their operating costs.
Initially, Flattr plans to manage a 10% cut of any finance paid as an administration fee. But, said Mr Sunde, unfeigned hopes to outbreak that degree lower as people sign up.
"We're not really in this for tailor-made rich," he said. "We're doing present to change things and making people get done chief they never got before."
"I have information that people are nice enough," he said. "People love things and they want to pay."
Flattr is currently in a closed experiment but hopes to be ready to launch by the end of March 2010. It is inquest partners looking to enter on some cash from their content.
Mr Sunde said the idea seeing Flattr came to him about five years ago but could not pursue it owing to of "other things that took massive amounts of time".
"I fundamental to find an one-click avenue to pay for content," he spoken. "I wanted undeniable to speak for based on the idea that different relatives have antithetic financial situations," he told the BBC. "So doing it direction a flat rate means was the only way."

The "other things" included The Pirate Bay website that pointed people towards copyrighted content double whereas modern tracks and videos. Mr Sunde besides three other administrators of the site were pursued in Sweden's courts by film and video game makers.
In April 2009, the four were make active guilty of aiding copyright theft further were sentenced to one year in prison and fined 2.7m euros (£2.35m). Final appeals from both sides of the case are true to reproduce heard repercussion early 2010.