There’s no reason to stop visiting this site just because it also posts on non-p2p related material. I find a wealth of p2p material daily so stop your fucking baseless bitching. He has a right to make money from his hard work and if the fools looking at Britteny shit are stupid (sorry, but I rarely click links even though I know if would help the site) enough to click on ads then congratulations to jon for finding a target audience to make money off of.

I find that usually my side interests are science. That is also out of the span of interest for most readers here at p2pnet. A disturbing trend I’ve noticed repeatedly at other sites in general news as well. To me it seems to be a couple of factors drive that trend.

Our younger generation isn’t interested in science. They’ve been brought up on a news diet of sensationalism by commercial media that really no longer do in depth reporting. Instead they echo prepared statements of syndicated news. This seems to be what attracts readers. How that will help us down the road with improving our lifestyles or our lives I’ve yet to figure out.

Since I normally post such science news related articles at various sites, I find viewership counts reflect this trend. Examining the other articles that do attract attention in readership seem like topics out of The Enquirer. While I also usually post images to the topic at hand as well, none are normally provided with the competitive sensational subjects.

So I have come to the conclusion that articles must follow these sort of guidelines to be read.

They must be:
Short
Timely
Have sexual content
Weird headlines

to attract readership.

The other factor seems that there are far less new science subjects coming out for the public, compared to years ago. I see the locking up of research by those that would gain financial benefit from publicy funded grants as part of the problem in this. The other seems to be the more shadowy hand of government interferance.

I would have the reader here understand that I do not follow the time worn idea that the younger generation is taking the world to hell in a handbasket, nor am I a conspiracy theorist. They are our future, just as we were our parents future. They will grow to meet the demands put on them in an adult world, eventually. They will replace the now senior workers as they always have. It is the nature of life.

However for the now, new readership means getting their attention to begin with. If you don’t put something on line to get them here, you will never see them.

You have to do what you have to do to stay alive. I will visit your site until the day it goes off-line or the day their is no more conflict surrounding P2P… In other words, for a long time. I don’t care how many Britney Spears or Vanessa Hudgens articles you have to do to stay alive. In fact I’ll even admit I was interested in reading them. I hope you never consider setting up a separate site to do so, because the more people who come here for another reason, and end up reading your articles, the better the message is delivered to the public.

This site is designed and maintained to provide the information that the mainstream media tends to ignore regarding file sharing. If you draw in those unique visitors by providing articles of a varying content, more power to you. By posting those articles you are delivering this message to an audience which may not even know who the RIAA and MPAA are before they get here. Information is power, and how people are driven to that information is not nearly as important as them getting the information.

Keep up the good work,
Liam