PRI nastygrams podcasters for "This American Life" RSS feeds
21st Jun 2006, 13:34 GMT
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing reader m@ says, My friend Jared, techblogger Jon Udell, and apparently some others have been sent emails from the PRI radio program This American Life's webmeister requesting they halt publishing RSS podcast-feeds of TAL shows that simply link to MP3s hosted on TAL own website. Jon has posted a copy of the email, and his response on his blog: Link. What's questionable about the request is that claims a copyright violation based on deep-linking to content that is already openly available and hosted on the content-provider's site. BB reader Ken Kennedy was among those who also pointed out that... Until recently, the "This American Life" feed off of PRI has been a RealAudio stream, which is a PITA to transcode onto a portable media player. Jon's up to that challenge, of course, but he was pleased when they recently switched to MP3s, and blogged about setting up a custom RSS feed to grab the shows and dump them for his player. Nothing says "thank you" like a cease-and-desist.
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