Re: [Banshee-List] Amazon revenue

[Conscious User <conscioususer gmail com>]

> 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


Thanks for the clarification, Bertrand. Hopefully no one will think
I was deliberately trying to be controversial against Mint, as I was
just genuinely curious about whether I had missed something.