I read this today folks and as its one of the sites I visit for smaller snippets of news I though you all may be interested.
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10870p2pnet.net special:- p2pnet is on the verge of going offline. Our income dropped by 80% as of December 28.
Several times in 2006 I said I was able to keep going only thanks to the advertisers .
Early in the year, the Big 4 Organized Music gang turned on LimeWire, one of my advertisers. LimeWire pulled their booking, and then it was BearShare's turn. Two down, and I was in deep trouble. Again, I had to borrow money to stay online. But in July a small group in Europe offered to make up the difference between what I was getting in ad revenues and what I needed to keep posting, and that's the way things stayed during the summer and fall.
Then a few weeks back, one of my remaining advertisers unexpectedly cut back on its booking as well and finally, on December 28, the money from Europe was also abruptly cut off. This means my income has now been slashed by four-fifths which is, of course, a huge amount.
I want p2pnet to keep on doing what it's been doing and if you'd like to help, and you think you can, or if you'd like to become an active part of keeping it online in some way, please get in touch: jon@p2pnet.net. No reasonable offers or suggestions will be turned down : )
While I feel sorry for John in seeing his site fall to being a burden on him I must say this site has been sailing close to the wind with similar problems and our web host KM has never erred in placing his own cash to keep us rolling, perhaps John should get a few news hound volunteers as they do at Slycks and get a non web job if he is really commited ?
I wish I had $750 dollara a week to live on.
