Gee why don’t you ask Fox news, MSNBC, and CNN, the New York Times etc… the same question

You are taking your desire for reality just like the 4 major organized criminal organization Vevendique Universal, Sony/BMG, EMI and Time Warner! Tey are reporting great income while every day bring them closer to BK! it like the RIAA reporting their success against P2P while their sale are down and the P2Ptraffic continue to go up!

You are pathetic!

This is us that are saying Bye Bye to you because this is youthat is going to dissapear soon!

You see we don’t need crap like you dude!

The artists and their public no longer need you for advertizing and distributing their production because they hav internet.

ByeBye Bye RIAA!

And as far as P2Pnet is concern it is not going to dissapear because we will support it! But you can day dream!

Another RIAA drone Talking!

This is the 4 majors “coprorations” (Vivendique/universale, Sony/BSHG, EMI and Time Warned) that have an inability to provide a product that has value!

The Value of P2Pnet is measure by it’s tremendous traffic that I am sorry to say is way higher than the traffic at Riaa.com.

You! Parasite tell the piece of shit that are your friends at the RIAA that the people are nolonger inpressed by the britney-slut and other Madona-Crap they are producing.

Tell your friend that they are all in trouble and that if they don’t drop their lawsuit and campaign of harassement and extortion very soon
against the citizen of this country they are going to get it!

yes they are consequences for breaking our laws, trempling our constitution and corrupting our governement.
These consequences could be dear!

I don’t have much traffic yet (just started the site as a “side-project” of my own …mostly to teach myself html/css/etc.) But maybe it will help ya some. Who knows?

–Shmoo, aka “independentmusician”
of the band Electric Gypsy
(still serving voluntarily as an admin at Boycott Riaa)

It’s nice to have someone with points to make sign his name : )

___I think that you are asking way too much to have a website not only support your webhosting costs; but also you, your wife, your child, and your mortage. Most people are happy just to have part of their webhosting costs paid for with their advertisements.___

I work at p2pnet, and I do mean ‘work,’ for between 12 and 14 hours a day weekdays, and for six or seven hours on week-ends, and often more than that. In other words, I’m now a full-time online publisher, but I’m not getting fat on it. Nor is this an entrepreneurial-type business. It started out as a personal page and became the way I earn my living by accident.

___Also much of your revenue comes from shady DCIA “filesharing” companies. The best filesharing programs are open source and are non commercial. The DCIA and its affiliates are poison for filesharers.___

100% incorrect. I have nothing whatsoever to do with the DCIA or companies associated with them. To the contrary, I’ve frequently criticised them. Here’s an early post. http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1720. Sharman Networks got the DCIA rolling and Sharman’s Nikki Hemming is suing me.

___I suggest you try to send your daughter to public school rather than home school her. It seems that you or your wife should get some kind of jobs which draw in an income.___

There’s no way on earth Liz or I be willing to send Emma to a pubic school. If she wanted to go, we wouldn’t stop her. But she’s tried it and prefers things the way they are. I believe you’re a fairly regular reader so you already know how I feel about the increasing corporate incursions into the public school systems. So we’ll continue to take on the direct responsibility of educating her ourselves, working with, and often helped by, other home-schooling families.

___And you will be surprised to find that actually taking time off from your hobby of filesharing, will give you a better grasp at it because it will make you more well rounded and give you a fresh perspective.___

It’s not a hobby, and never was. I had my own music online for free and it’s still there. http://www.p2pnet.net/jonmusic/index.html I’d planned to try and get a kind of collaborative jam session going but in the end, I didn’t have the time.

As far as uploading and downloading files are concerned, I used to do both, but not any more for reasons which should be obvious to you if you think about it for a moment. I’m already the victim of one lawsuit, and there are two more in the wings.

Cheers!

I think that you are asking way too much to have a website not only support your webhosting costs; but also you, your wife, your child, and your mortage. Most people are happy just to have part of their webhosting costs paid for with their advertisements.

While it sucks getting reduced revenue, take heart that it means people are becoming more savvy about what is being thrown before them, and they can’t be taken for granted to be consumers. So isn’t it a good thing for the people if marketing and advertising suffers a decline? You support the will of the people. So support their desire to not be marketed. Also much of your revenue comes from shady DCIA “filesharing” companies. The best filesharing programs are open source and are non commercial. The DCIA and its affiliates are poison for filesharers.

I suggest you try to send your daughter to public school rather than home school her. It seems that you or your wife should get some kind of jobs which draw in an income. And you will be surprised to find that actually taking time off from your hobby of filesharing, will give you a better grasp at it because it will make you more well rounded and give you a fresh perspective.

People are fundamentally lazy and will make mountains of the molehills which are their daily hobbies and chores. I know because I actually seem to do more at home during a work day in which I also go to work, than when I am off on the weekend where I have the leisure to procrastinate and lounge at home all day. It seems that most people work better on a budget, or with deadlines and outside disciplines imposed upon them.

CEP Journalism Code of Ethics

(A code adopted on 17 December 2004 by the CEP, the Communications, Energy and Paperwork Union, one of the largest unions in Canada, formed in 1992 through a merger of three smaller unions)

Preamble

Journalists report, analyse, and comment on the facts that help their fellow citizens understand the world in which they live. Complete, accurate and diverse information and commentary are necessary for the proper functioning of democracy.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms recognizes this by guaranteeing freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Journalists must defend the freedom of the press and the public’s right to information; they must fight any restrictions, pressures and threats that aim to limit the gathering and dissemination of information.

Facts and ideas that are in the public interest must circulate freely.

Our legal traditions give media privilege and protection. We must return this trust through the ethical practice of our craft. A free press should serve the public interest, not personal or specific interests. Serving the public interest must override any desire to favour the financial and competitive needs of news organizations or their parent companies.

The rights and responsibilities of a free press apply to both individual journalists and to news organizations that employ them.

Journalists must take their role very seriously. They must demand of themselves the same ethical qualities they demand of newsmakers; in other words, they cannot denounce other people’s conflicts of interest, and at the same time, accept their own.

This Code establishes the principles that should guide journalistic work in organizations where CEP collective agreements are in force. These principles lay the foundation for a journalist’s most precious asset: credibility.

Therefore, those of us engaged in journalism and newsroom management commit ourselves to: truth, honesty, fairness, independence and respect for the rights of others. To achieve these goals the following principles shall govern our activity in the collection and dissemination of news and opinion:

PRINCIPLES

1) We shall at all times defend the principle of the freedom of the press and other media in relation to the collection of information and the expression of comment and criticism.

2) We shall strive to eliminate distortion, news suppression and censorship.

3) We shall strive to ensure that the information disseminated is fair and accurate, avoiding the expression of comment and conjecture as established fact and falsification by distortion, selection or misrepresentation.

4) We shall give an accurate account of what people say. Quotations, editing, sound effects, etc., and the sequence in which they are presented, must not distort the meaning of people’s words.

5) We shall rectify promptly any harmful inaccuracies, ensure that correction and apologies receive due prominence and afford the right of reply to persons criticized when the issue is of sufficient importance.

6) We shall give people or organizations that are publicly accused or criticized prompt opportunity to respond. We shall make a genuine and exhaustive effort to contact them. If they decline to comment we will say so.

7) We shall tell sources who are unfamiliar with the media that their remarks may be published or broadcast and thus communicated to a large group of people.

We shall obtain information, photographs and illustrations only by straightforward means. The use of other means can be justified only by over-riding considerations of the public interest. A journalist is entitled to exercise a personal conscientious objection to the use of such means.

9) We shall ensure that photographs, graphics, sounds and images that are published or broadcast represent reality as accurately as possible. Artistic concerns shall not result in public deception. Edited images and photographs shall be identified as such.

10) We shall always credit the originating news organization or reporter so that readers/viewers know the sources of their information.

11) We shall never plagiarize. If we use an exclusive piece of information that has just been published or broadcast by another media organization, we shall identify the source.

12) Subject to the justification by over-riding considerations of the public interest, we shall do nothing that entails intrusion into private grief and distress.

13) We shall respect everyone’s right to a fair trial. We shall respect the presumed innocence of everyone before the courts. When we have covered an incident where individuals have been incriminated and prosecuted, we will continue to follow the story as closely as possible, and ensure the public is informed of the end result.

14) We shall identify sources of information, except when there is a clear and pressing reason to protect anonymity. When this happens, we will explain the need for anonymity.

15) We shall endeavour to protect confidential sources of information, but since there are no shield laws protecting journalists in Canada we may be ordered by a court or judicial inquiry to divulge confidential sources upon threat of jail. Therefore we must convey that clearly to our sources.

16) We shall not accept bribes nor shall we allow other inducements to influence the performance of our journalistic duties.

17) We shall not lend ourselves to the distortion or suppression of the truth because of advertising or other considerations.

18) Columnists shall be free to express their views, even when those views are contrary to the editorial views of their organization, as long as the content does not breach the law.

19) We shall only mention a person’s age, ethnic background, colour, creed, illegitimacy, disability, marital status (or lack of it), gender or sexual orientation if this information is strictly relevant. We shall neither originate nor process material that encourages discrimination, ridicule, prejudice or hatred on any of the above-mentioned grounds.

20) We shall not take private advantage of information gained in the course of our duties, before the information is public knowledge.

21) We shall not use our positions to obtain any benefit or advantage in commercial transactions not available to the public.

22) We shall not by way of statement, voice or appearance endorse by advertisement any commercial product or service save for the promotion of our own work or of the organization that employs us.

23) We shall clearly identify infomercials so they are not in any way confused — even by their layout — with information.

24) We shall cover events sponsored by our own organizations with the same rigor we apply to every other event.

25) We shall not act as police informers or as agents for any country’s security or intelligence services.

Say something often enough and eventually, it becomes accepted truth. Ask Hitler’s propagandist.

So Yes, I’m saying the same thing over and over again, but not because I’m trying to pass a lie off as the truth. What I’m saying _is_ the truth. I’m doing what I can to make sure it isn’t completely swamped by all the bullshit the labels and movie studios are able to get into the mainstream media.

Cheers!

On the verification: I had absolutely no choice, and you can thank the spammers, mostly in China, for that. And I still regularly delete them by hand.

But I am, as they say, exploring possibilities and who knows maybe we’ll be able to figure out a way to dispense with the VF system? That’d be good.

It’d also be good to re-start the newsletter which I had to drop for technical reasons I wasn’t able to deal with.

Cheers!

I love how you always sign your posts.

Yes, the constant mainstream cries of “stealing”, “theft”,
“artists going broke cuz of p2p” ..etc .. all untrue, get
to feel like baseball bat hits as well.
The Lie Oft Repeated strategy is VERY effective when the
the liars control major media.

That’s why sites like Jon’s are so frightening.
The TRUTH can be repeated as often as the lie.
For now, the net cannot be fully censored or controlled
by conventional means ( now, as we are seeing, financial
censorship is being used ).

The ARE victimizing children, Moms, the dead etc..
Using their vast financial weight as a club to force submission,
regardless of fact.

that’s the truth.
That’s why sites like these exist, and are needed.

Another put off is the filler. You know, those so-called news articles that proclaim the evils of the MPAA and RIAA, how they’re victimizing children, moms, and so forth. It gets old fast, and none of it is really news. After a while it starts to feel like I’m being hit over the head with a baseball bat repeatedly.

Don’t get me wrong as I’ve always loved this site. Being able to leave anonymous comments has always been one of the primary features that made me love it in the beginning, and I’ve commented many a time over the past year or two. There aren’t many sites out there willing to risk doing this. So please, take my comments above for what they are, as constructive criticism.

I have to admit that I’m impressed at the number of folks that seem to have come out from lurk mode to post in support of Jon and this site. It’s good to see that there are still some folks out there that value all his hard work and care what happens to him. Money is really tight right now for the wife and I, otherwise I’d be donating right now. I wish I could do more than simply comment, but alas that is all I have to offer. Since that is a part of what makes p2pnet so great, I suppose it is better than nothing.

Anyways, keep up the good work. You always done the community a great service, especially in regards to fund drives for people facing lawsuits. Above all, I wanted you to know that is has always been appreciated by this reader, and that I hope things work out for you in the end. Always remember to look on the bright side of life. If you end up having to sell the site, at least you’ll have more time for your other hobbies, and in particular your family. Take care!

I doubt for instance that if Steve Ballmer has a heart attack and dies today they’ll be like “Ok people let’s wrap up here and everyone go home, you don’t need to come to work tomorrow”. I agree with you, people is the most important element of instututions, yet people do get replaced often. When Dubya is no longer president, he’ll move out of the White House, not the other way around, yet the government will continue.

~ Leo.

Cheers! And thanks …
Jon

Cheers!
Jon

I have written very nice email to bittorrent inc (bittorrent.com) hoping that they could host your website or make some kind of deal with you. I don’t know what else I can do, besides having faith and hoping you will succed.

We really appreciate with my GF your work and use it sometimes as base to our news and short stories

Regards

Lukasz Bien
news.torrent.pl