I dont mind the celebrity material as its obvious its purpose is to gather a wider readership, what does disappoint me is the small quantity of “fake” stories published here with small notes at the bottom stating the invalidity of the information posted above, this not only is unfair but in effect steals time from folks like me who have other thing to do, could you ensure we dont see any more of those type of story?

If you need more publicity Jon just make a post stating so, there are many like me who are only too willing to ensure you get more readers here, you do after all present our side of the coin instead of the double header the entertainment industry try to foster on to us.

I for one am sure your core moral values are the same as before and accept you need a secure form of income, no one thinks otherwise from reading through the threads but I suspect they just need reassurance from you that the sites “flavour” is not diluted, give them that and lets leave this topic be, you have my trust at least Jon.

p2pnet has plenty of p2p stories —- ask Henry —- and frankly, I don’t think two feeds are needed.

However, I could do MORE celeb-type posts.

Jst kidding

Cheers!

I’m certainly NOT going to be “taking my ball and bat and going home” over this. I don’t know if you listen to any suggestions from the peanut gallery, but here is mine. I’m not saying don’t publish the celeb stories, but maybe a little less of them, and add in some other non p2p stories instead. I think AJFA had a good idea on that:
“corporate vs us” stuff, you know, how a company does this or that hoping nobody will notice, and I’m like “Come on now! it’s 2008, Internet anybody! You can hide nothing”. It doesn’t have to be MPAA or RIAA all the time, they are not the only evil ones out there.”
A good example of this are commercials on tv that advocate something, like say nuclear power. A commercial will come on saying how wonderful and necessary it is, then will say “paid for by concerned citizens for a better america”. As it turns out, the real creator of the commercial is the Nuclear power industry(note, the example I gave is hypothetical) Exposing this kind of crap is a public service. I was also thinking more nerd stuff like slashdot does. (the cool stuff section looks like an interesting idea)
As I already stated, this is just a suggestion from the peanut gallery, don’t let negative commenters (especially trolls) drive you off.

Why would p2pnet.net be any different?

Bring on the ads in whatever stories you have to print to send the eyes to them, my friend. Somebody has to pay the bills.

Those who advertise on p2pnet.net get my respect and my business.

Advertisers – are you listenening?

Cheers!

Several years ago, when my RIAA lawsuit first started, I had no idea what was happening, who these people were who were contacting me, or what any of this was about. I couldn’t find any body I knew who knew anything about it either. The only place I could find information at first was the internet. Back then, there were only a handful of sites to educate myself with. P2Pnet was one of those as well as Ray Beckerman’s, “Recording Industry vs. the People.” I will always be extremely grateful to these two sites as well as the people who run them. They have made a difference in my life.

As for myself, I don’t always read all the celebrity articles either, but I don’t think they are a bad idea if they draw more readers. I just simply skip over what I’m not interested in. I think using any way we can to educate people is useful. Not everyone ever is going to be interested in the same things. For myself, I try to keep my eye on the main principle behind all this. That’s what is really important to me. I hope to read P2Pnet for many years to come.

Cheers!
Jon

It is very frustrating, it really makes it look like somehow I am managing to miss, in my feed reader, a large majority of the types of stories I actually subscribe to the feed for. I hadn’t really had any previous concept of just how prolific the story authors here are, and it really changes the percentages I suggested before.

I’m not sure if there is any solution for this. I went and counted the stories posted for the 18th, a pretty busy day, and they totaled 15, the exact number of slots I have in my feed reader, so I really shouldn’t be missing stuff.

I guess the reason the numbers I mentioned earlier seem so high is I wasn’t really able to divide the stories by date looking at them through my feed reader. So I was looking at the window of stories posted over one evening and the following pre-afternoon when I’m usually online.

It is kind of difficult to get a true feel for the percentages of stories falling into the various p2p-related stories (including the p2p, MPAA/RIAA, DRM, and sometimes open source categories).

All that said, I really do greatly appreciate this site for the content I AM actually interested. The only other sites I’ve been able to find on this subject with RSS feeds are zeropaid, slyck, the p2p category on download squad, and torrentfreak, and of all those only TF seems to publish anything remotely like a substantial amount of (on topic) content compared to p2p.net.

If anyone can point my at any RSS Feeds (I dont visit sites lacking feeds) I am missing, I would greatly appreciate such.

keep it up Jon! I read this blog every single day, and its been amazing to actually watch the process through which p2p has turned from a minor issue into a somewhat international issue, and its been an experience to read the reports on the ongoing battle between corporate SOBs and internet users, I’ve never seen any other subject documented with this much precision in any other online blog.

Keep up the good work!!! 0_0

You also say P2PNet has “veered so far away from what it used to do well that now it’s become almost a tabloid and close to being a joke”.

How personal can you get?

Why would you want to still be associated with something like that?

Just asking.

I get half-a-dozen or so emails a month and most of them are in a vein similar to Henry’s. And who knows? Maybe he’s the author of some of them. heh.

Following catflap’s post, the proportion of negative versus plus was about the same as the comment posts, and one was particularly pleasing.

Morg has been posting occasional anonymous comments for about as long as catflap. He’s never told me his name but he’s based somewhere in Europe and works for the corporate entertainment industry. Movies or music? I don’t know. But I suspect music.

”For various reasons,” he emailed me, “I do not post as often as I would like, but I still read p2pnet fairly regularly and I can tell you this: your efforts are not going unnoticed and p2pnet is regular and required reading in certain quarters, which might surprise you, although I suspect not. So keep it up.”

I plan to, Morg, and everyone else.

Thanks for your support. It means a lot.

Cheers!

(PS – As vitriolic as Henry is, I can respect the fact he at least has the courage to sign his name, unlike Sam I Am.)

shudder. two nasties having a ball

jon and i have known each other for quite some time in both a “professional” and “personal” sense – inasmuch as the limitations of a 7,000+ mile internet friendship can allow. it wasn’t the first email i’d ever sent him.

i’ve also called jon several times on the telephone over these past three years to discuss several lawsuits, articles, interviews, publicity matters, and general chit-chat. (and i never reversed the charges ).

we’ve also had a few arguments by email as well as on the phone, and i don’t believe jon took my so-called “attack” as personally as some others seem to believe he did – or indeed that i meant it that way at all. but it does seem those others have transfered their own emotions to jon, much as a client might do with their psychoanalyst.

i don’t shit where i eat – and i certainly wouldn’t “attack” jon on a personal level. my comments are my own, and how i feel about the direction p2pnet has taken recently. and i know jon understands that even if no-one else does.

i’m not interested in a pat on the back or a slap in the face either way. but i wanted to say what i said, and i said it.

all of the contributors and (most of) the readers do appreciate what jon does for the p2p/technology community as a whole, and my comments are not to be construed as otherwise. for without p2pnet, it’s true, there might not be even half the number of message boards and news sites dedicated to bringing the rights of the consumer/customer to the forefront and exposing the corrupt business practices of the corrupt conglomerates which used to rule and dictate to the unwashed masses.

in response to a couple of the replies above: you don’t need to know whether or not i’ve ever donated money to p2pnet. that’s strictly between myself and jon.

and…

i’ve had my own p2p-based message board, as well as having been a moderator on several others and recognized as a “visiting/guest staff” on still others because of my association to p2pnet.

as a regular reader of, and contributor to, p2pnet, i of course don’t belittle the good work that jon does. nor do i ignore the financial and legal situations he and his family are in. i do what i can to help him and he knows that. no-one else need be concerned.

i’ve said it publicly (and privately to jon) before that i’m grateful to him for inviting me to be part of his “staff”.

although he’d often told me he’d like to be able to pay me and the other contributors, and at one time there was a chance of that happening, i never pressed him on it or demanded he send me a check. that’s not why i stay here, and jon knows that.

my only beef (and my reasons) – which i won’t go into again – is detailed in my reply. i don’t care if anyone agrees with me or not.

so there.

But I will give you one thing, Newton: that “I’m going to have to sell the site” scam worked out brilliantly. We all bought into it, and it probably drummed up vast amounts of readership for your bllog-by-any-other-name, here.

Keep up the good work: it’s not like being anti-corporate, anti-commercial, and/or defending rampant theft is that difficult. It certaintly doesn’t take any kind of moral fortitude.