Re: [Banshee-List] Amazon revenue

[Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Conscious User <conscioususer gmail com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was reading Clem's clarification about replacing the original
> Amazon revenue URL by a Mint one
>
> http://www.glasen-hardt.de/?p=1474&cpage=1#comment-1882
>
> and one line made me raise an eyebrow:
>
> "Banshee does not use this link and they do not care about this
> income anymore"
>
> Can someone shed some light on this? I couldn't figure out
> whether this was simply an incorrect assumption based on the fact
> that the link seemed to be broken, or if upstream is really not
> caring about the Amazon income anymore.

I can assure you that the Amazon store still uses this link, and that
we do care about this.
We were not contacted by anyone from Linux Mint about this, but I have
now reached out to Clem to explain what follows.

I think he was mislead by the fact that the URL in the code [1] is
only the base of the URL, other stuff is added to it and then used by
our server-side code [2].
This explain why http://integrated-services.banshee.fm/amz/redirect.do
doesn't work, but
http://integrated-services.banshee.fm/amz/redirect.do/geo/home will do
some geoIP detection and send you to the Amazon MP3 store
corresponding to your country (defaulting to Amazon.com), and
http://integrated-services.banshee.fm/amz/redirect.do/FR/home will
send you to the French Amazon MP3 store.

That being said, my position on this subject hasn't changed, and the
following text from the code comments is still valid :
We ask that no one change this redirect URL. ALL (100%) revenue
generated by this Banshee Amazon integration is sent directly to the
non-profit GNOME Foundation.

[1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/banshee/tree/src/Extensions/Banshee.AmazonMp3.Store/Banshee.AmazonMp3.Store/StoreView.cs
[2] http://git.gnome.org/browse/banshee/tree/src/Extensions/Banshee.AmazonMp3.Store/server
    or http://integrated-services.banshee.fm/amz/redirect.c
-- 
Bertrand Lorentz