Comments on: Murdoch, ‘would-be ringleader of a massive jailbreak’

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:49:47 +0000

Surely another meta search engine like Copernic would index articles from both Google and Bing. It’s impossible to make news exclusive to one search engine…

By: RadialSkid

RadialSkid — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:38:46 +0000

If newspapers attempt to charge for information, the only thing that’s going to happen is people will turn to blogs and other free sources of news. No one has a monopoloy on world events. People will find out, one way or another, and one of the benefits of a worldwide communication system (ie, the Internet) is that no one has to pay to collect information anymore, save their ISP.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:03:59 +0000

@ RW above:

Did you see my post that I might have to close p2pnet down as a threat? That suggests it means something to you.

I get up at 3:00 every morning, answer emails and stuff until around 4:00, and then post until around noon. Then I spend another hour or so working offline. And I often log back on again for an hour or two in the later afternoon. Just like now. Not only but also, I now work on a2f2a.com. Every day. For free. And I make and receive phone calls related to both sites. And I’m a husband and home-schooling father. I used to be an amateur musician as well, but I don’t have time for that any more.

This isn’t about content, or how much it is or isn’t worth. I’m not demanding payment. I honestly believe I’m providing something that’s needed and I’m asking for help to keep on doing that,

I posted ‘p2pnet: close to collapse’ seven days ago. How much as come in? $376.03, after PayPal has deducted its fee. So if I say (very conservatively) I worked for 8 hours a day for six days, that’s about $7.80 an hour. But please don’t think I’m belittling that. I’m not.

And I haven’t mentioned the lawsuits. One was entirely pro bono, and one wasn’t, and it cost me a lot of money I had to borrow and still haven’t paid back. It would have been more had it not been for the $2,000 readers donated. And we’ve contributed our own savings over the years. So now we don’t have savings.

I thought I’d had it when I made that first post, but with Cliff on board, and a lot of thinking, my wife and I believe we may have a way to keep going until the end of March. That’ll give me breathing space, and thanks to Rogan, we’ll also be re-jigging the site which will, I think, make a big difference.

As for paying contributors, I’d love to and now I have someone to work with – Cliff – it’s possible a project I’ve had in mind for five years might be fired up. If it does and it works, it’ll be an earner and I’ll not not only be able to pay contributors, I’ll be able to hire a writer, and maybe two.

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:37:19 +0000

Jon, you also believe your “content” or “product” is worth money and have recently threatened to close down p2pnet if people don’t start paying up. Yet you have never paid anyone who has written articles for you which had helped you earn your salary from your former anonymous benefactor.

Are you a hypocrite? Yes you are. Please respond intelligently.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:37:20 +0000

Those whom would pay to join the Microsoft idea are not credible sources of news anyhow. It would be nice to keep their often misinformed information off of the web, despite that violating net neutrality. Looks like they want to do it to themselves.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:58:41 +0000

“Google needs newspapers at least as much as newspapers need Google â a fact thatâs been largely hidden up to now.”

O RLY? Newspapers have a monopoly on hard news?

By: Katrina

Katrina — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:09:51 +0000

yeah it took them this long to figure it out. haha , whatever i could have told ya ages ago- . http://www.emule-project.com