A US website operator who advertised that subscribing to his site would mean file-sharers could sidestep copyright laws has settled deception charges brought against him by the Federal Trade Commision (FTC).
Under the terms of the settlement, Los Angeles man Cashier Myricks must pay back 611 would-be file sharers the more than $15k the FTC said he duped them into forking out.
On his mp3downloadcity.com site, Myricks claimed that for $24.95 his tutorial, which demonstrated how to install and use freely available P2P software, would make file-sharing "100 per cent legal".
