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According to US media reports on Thursday, the group will pay the three founders of the website produced in the Canadian city of Kelowna (province of British Columbia) a further 350 million dollars if certain performance targets are achieved by 2009. Club Penguin is an online community with currently more than 700,000 members who pay 5.95 US dollars a month. It is a snow-covered virtual world populated by penguins. The players can modify their penguins themselves according to their taste and then talk with other penguins in chat rooms or play games. The website, which was created only toward the end of 2005, has so far been popular mainly in Canada, the USA and Great Britain, but Disney also wants to advance into other countries with it.
