Kazaa's Altnet tops 75 million downloads

According to an Altnet statement, 1,000 separate files have been downloaded by Kazaa users for a total of more than 75 million downloads. The company said that 18 million of these have required people to pay a fee to unlock the content, and 57 million have been free but copy-protected promotional content. Kazaa's parent company, Sharman Networks, has cited the Altnet service's efforts to distribute authorized content as support for its claims that its file-swapping network should not be ruled illegal. Sharman is being sued by record companies and movie studios for copyright infringement.