I won't contribute a thing to this place--see Jack the Sailor's above post re: financial contribution, and Jack Campin's posts to the rec.music.folk thread on Mudcat Duffers if you want to know why.
There is a time when the best way to solve the problem at hand is to lend one, and not level criticism. There are other times when seeing the sincere and genuine efforts blown off by the person being helped suggests that any further help to the person just prolongs the bad situation.
I'll not do anything to prolong what I see here as a very bad situation regarding the Digital Tradition. The sooner Max goes under, the better for the online folk and blues music community and the collection.