A takedown request from This American Life
21st Jun 2006, 17:34 GMT
Final update: Jared Benedict has made the same voluntary decision that I did, and has an excellent writeup here. He writes, in part: Contrary to posts on Boing Boing and elsewhere, Jon Udell and I did not receive a "nastygram" or formal cease and desist letter. Rather we received friendly emails from Ms. Meister, This American Life's webmaster, making a request to take down the hyperlinks and RSS feeds, or she'd regrettably have to get lawyers involved. ... While I am confident that I am breaking no law, I am respecting TAL's wishes by taking down the podcast and archive page which points to their MP3's. This American Life has decided to take the bizarre approach to Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) by asking nicely -- which I suppose is better than using some Windows only Microsoft Media Player DRM or Sony Rootkit DRM. Indeed it is. ...
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