Re: [Banshee-List] Amazon revenue

[Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Conscious User <conscioususer gmail com> wrote:
>
>> 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.

You're welcome. In fact I'm grateful that you asked for more
information before doing or saying anything else.
For this specific issue, you're the only person who has done so, which
I think is a bit sad.

-- 
Bertrand Lorentz