i wonder if any of the donations are taxable?
i wonder if any of the donations are taxable?
requesting donations when you really dont need donations is just as bad as charging
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
The point is that they should NOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT rely on donations FULLY. Who's site is it if you use the donations to pay the bills? Hell, ill make a site if someone gave me some money. But it isn't called my site anymore cuz i didn't pay for it. Im not bad mouthing narutofan, they do have a good site, but i don't think they should rely fully on donations. i also think the direct dls=bogus. BUT it would help alot of people in school, so maybe those guys need em.
can someone explain to me why they need 6 media servers and over 5000 GB?
bittorrent exists for a reason [img]i/expressions/rolleye.gif[/img]
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
they say that the extras are for developing new projects. but if thats the case,then they shouldn't be charging us 3$ for direct download account.
The only new project I've seen come out of them recently is this stupid thing we're talking about.
yeah this stupid thing that we have to pay for.... i thought the media servers should be enough........ they should at least pay some of the bill out of their own pockets......
well no, if i was maintaining a site that benifits lots of people, then i'd expect them to help out at least a little.....
but bittorrent was specifically invented so people wouldnt HAVE to deal with expensive bandwidth costs
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
If I had to pay every site I find usefull, man, I would be really poor.
If you have a site that is usefull to a lot of people - than you have to pay the bills. If you have an unusefull site - take it off the net. You either provide a site and deliever a service or you don't. Donationware / Beer-ware was never intended to pay monthly costs for a simple reason - it' not suited.
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why don't they just host torrents to the manga
it might be just be crazy enough to work
i like how GW's motto: 'if you can't pay for the servers/web host/etc, then don't run a site'
or something like that.
Yeah, I like that, it makes sense. Plus, what are they going to do if they get too dependent upon the money from this sort of stuff, and then they get fewer and fewer members. It will suck for them.Originally posted by: Mut@t@
i like how GW's motto: 'if you can't pay for the servers/web host/etc, then don't run a site'
or something like that.
yeah, but thing for narutofan.com is that like the most popular naruto fan site out there right now. well, second to mine of course.
Yeah, but I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who feel the same way we do about charging money, and so they may boycott it to some extent as well.
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