p2pnet to mininova
p2p news / p2pnet:- Part I – Yesterday we posted an item meant to point up what was to us an extreme irony: a BitTorrent site advertising a product made by a founding member of the entertainment industry cartels which are trying to kill it.
Sony is one of the owners of the MPAA which is, with the RIAA right behind it, doing its best to wipe out file sharing it doesn’t own and/or control, and sue file sharers into buying shabby ‘product’.
Mininova is, in turn, an excellent site which helps people share with each other and which is, therefore, also a natural target for the MPAA, etc.
So when p2pnet reader Daniel told us the latter was in effect advertising the former’s PSP games console in a t-shirt promo, we thought it definitely strange and did a post, the implicit question being, we’d thought, Why would anyone help someone who’s trying to stomp them?
Of course, we knew mininova was doing no more than using the PSP console as a way to increase sales of its t-shirts. But still ….
Anyhow, this is to say publicly that we hadn’t intended to slag mininova and anyone who thinks that was our aim should think again.
To the contrary, more power to it and to other sites like it.
And in the meanwhile, mininova admin Niek and p2pnet’s Jon Newton exchanged a couple of (friendly) emails during which, not unnaturally, the subject of nasty notes from the cartels came up, together with mininova’s responses to them.
Watch this space for Part II ;D
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October 19th, 2005 at 11:38 pm
This is like a Christian group advertising on a fundamentalist Islam site or vice versa. The Republicans’ll soon start advertising on the web sites of the Democrats also. Whoops! Bad example. Both sites are the sites of crooks. No difference!