'Podcasting' Lets Masses Do Radio Shows

AP story ^ | February 6th, 2005 | Matthew Fordahl

[ajolympian2004]

On the Net:

Podcasting portals:

http://www.podcastalley.com

http://www.godcast.org

Adam Curry's iPodder software: http://www.ipodder.org

[Red Sea Swimmer]

Super anarchism is taking over.

If the message is the medium and vica versa, as Mr.McLuhan opined then this example of yet another revolutionary advance in communications technology heralds the progression of even more immense changes to the world order.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

ping

[Dont Mention the War]

I listen to podcasts every single day, but they're all semi-legal rips of real radio shows. I've yet to find a pure podcast that's so appealing that I want to go out of my way to download it and listen to it on a regular basis.

The cost-reward ratio isn't all that good, either. Sure, it's fun to be able to play radio DJ, but once everyone starts realizing that only five people a day are listening to their shows and the numbers aren't growing, they're going to get disillusioned real quick. Yeah, Adam Curry can get 50,000 listeners a day, but not many others will. And once real radio shows start waking up to this concept and offering their own podcasts to the masses, that's what the masses are going to start listening to. Since there's only so much time per day anyone can spend listening to audio, the amateur podcasters are going to be the ones that listeners abandon.

In any case, in another two to three years or so Wi-Fi access will start to be available over large areas, and that's going to turn everything on its ear. Once you can stream anything into your car, all the rules will change.

[demitall]

ping

[Khurkris]

I live om Taiwan. Its one of the most wired places, wi-fi, on the planet.
A group expats who live here has decided that the so-called "expat: radio staion here, IRCT, does not serve our needs/wants. A gross understatement.
Just in the last 4 days an "Expat Radio Taiwan" has been established on Live365 website.
I listen to it thru a download of Jet Audio.
Its a start on its available to anyone.

[nathanbedford]

bookmark

[Alas Babylon!]

Bump your bookmark.

[Izzy Dunne]

stream-of-consciousness rants punctuated by "uhs"

James Carville has a show?

[cyborg]

LOL

[Elsie]

If a tree falls in a forest........

Ok - just WHO is listening?

[ChadGore]

You've tried this . . can I ask you something ?

1) What if I take the Rush Limbaugh Internet feed and rip every segment into it's own MP3, making sure to skip the commercials, turn around a Podcast each segment as it's finished, I could have a show that's only time shifted 10-20 mins and available for all.

2) What if I just play back all the MP3s on my hard drive ?

In both situations, am I not inviting a lawsuit for distribution of copyrighted goods ?

[zook]

I like ICRT, except for most of the music! But they have (or had) a guy on in the morning who would often play stuff from "off the list," though he used to catch flack for doing it.

[RippleFire]

bump

[olde north church]

This is an excellent opportunity to bring the whole P2P thing into an forest vs tree situation. Several years ago, Rush came out against the napster concept, calling it stealing or something for nothing mindset.
He was concurrently extolling the virtues of tiVoing. How he was able to tiVo the football games and watch them without the commercials. I'm sure many of us have tried to contact Rush and chat regarding whatever issue on the table.
I tried to call and "debate" with him about the philosophy of P2P vs tiVo. How could he be against P2P yet support tiVo. Those football games are brought to the public by the dollars of the advertisers. To watch an event without watching the commercials is just as much stealing as filesharing. You're trying to get something for nothing.
Rationalize as much as you want, they are the same thing.
//stepping down from soapbox//

[Dont Mention the War]

In both situations, am I not inviting a lawsuit for distribution of copyrighted goods ?

In the first situation, you would be, in theory. In reality, however, they'd probably never notice (or care, if they did notice) unless you started getting hundreds of thousands of downloads per day. But even then, all they'd do is send you a cease-and-desist letter. As long as you complied with that letter, they wouldn't waste the cash on a lawsuit.

In the second situation, however, it's perfectly legal. As long as the files are for your own personal use, you can play them back however you like. It's no different from buying one of those modified cassette decks that people use to record entire three-hour shows on one side of a tape, and they used to be a Rush advertiser. (Of course, there's also no way for them to even tell you saved the Internet stream to your hard drive in the first place.)

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

To watch an event without watching the commercials is just as much stealing as filesharing. You're trying to get something for nothing.

That's the stupidest thing I ever read.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Are there any Howard Stern Podcasts out there?

[mhking]

Bookmarking for later...

[socal_parrot]

Watch the commercials, visit the bathroom or make a sandwich during the game FREELOADER!!! ;)