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There’s a debate happening on a2f2a.com centering on two items:

Is a2f2a.com dead? It isn’t.

That was the starting point, but eventually, an attempt was made to compare what’s happening on p2pnet with what’s happening with musicians.

But it’s apples and oranges — no relationship.

“For those who have been shouting at artists telling them to jump into the safety net held by the people who love their stuff, the sight of you plummeting to earth was pretty sobering” said one comment.

“Jon simply asked those who read his news articles if they would pay him to continue producing work and the answer was no”, said another.

However, “I don’t think the fact that Jon didn’t raise enough money in a few weeks … means that any musician going the DIY route is bound to fail”, said a third.

“Jon didn’t start p2pnet with any intention of making it a pay site”, said a fourth, continuing >>>

That’s where the SPONSORS came in, which were, subsequently, lost along the way, resulting in the present state.

Comparatively, Jon’s “fanbase” is not going to be able to compete with one of a “featured artist”, and people don’t typically come to blogsites looking for things requiring a credit card, anyway. YET, some of those who could afford to give HAVE, when alerted to the site’s demise!

A (good) musician would undoubtedly have more fans to start with, and that fanbase is usually much more focused toward the “product” of a narrow array of artists, and would already have the expectation of making a possible purchase before even visiting their sites.

An artist has a necessary “uniqueness” that generates a large, devoted following. A blogger, whether intentional or not, generally becomes part of a larger “community” that is collectively striving to dig the public out of the mainstream media misinformation blackhole.

You need to follow all 73 comments for the correct context, but the bottom line proposition was: readers want what p2pnet has to offer, but none of them are prepared to pay for it.

Which is rubbish, as this post proves in and of itself, to the tune of $918.28 to date.

In yet another comment, I said I was thinking of a system under which anyone who donates $30 or more gets a p2pnet t-shirt or a mug with the p2pnet beetle on it/them. The exact donation level would depend on what it costs to produce the shirts and mugs.

Well, I’ve gone beyond thinking. I’ve now had the quotes in and I’m deciding which’ll be the best fit from the point of view of quality (I hate rubber images on T-shirts) at a price people will be able to afford, and which’ll bring in enough to make it worthwhile.

I’m also thinking of making a p2pnet music CD with tunes from the people who’ve contributed to the p2pnet music downloads section, for which I have quite a few new songs to add.

Or I could make a combo offering.

So stay tuned on that.

Thanks, everyone

The total for February, with a week to go, is $918.28, including three suscriptions. And on that, if p2pnet ever does fold, I’ll cancel all subscriptions so people won’t be payng for something which isn’t there any more.

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