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No, no. A podcast is not an audio file. A podcast is a series of audio files, usually with some theme that ties them together, with new episodes being produced at regular intervals, along with a mechanism by which people can agree to receive future episodes of the show. It's a sacred bond of trust between podcaster and listener, all hail the Internet.

Left to themselves, the mp3s on your hard drive get stale and crotchety. That's why they need a way to make friends. Podcasting is like a play date for your mp3 collection. Or some crap like that.

Finally: Book in MP3 format. They happen sometimes.

Listen to Ch.1 by Doug Kaye and/or Ch.13 by George Sessum, as those files were properly recorded (some of the others were first-time recordings, and they didn't get their levels right).

CDBaby , a good service, with good music, run by good people.

A little while ago, I happened to whip up a best of CDBaby site (selections based on their editor picks, and here presented via my PHP/ASP app Andromeda).

Lawrence Lessig's new book talks about the perils of intelectual property law. In regard to the Sunny Bono Act in particular he was saying that the law only protects those with money.

In fact he went on to say that the ones with incredible amounts on money are the ones that are actually constructing law. Not exactly top secret information, but it still doesn't make me tingly when I hear it again. I don't know about you, but I can't think of anyone who has more money than Microsoft. It's a shame too. The only way to fix this situation, in my opinion is to have a complete reform in both congress and the house in how laws are made. Namely, get all that fucking special interest money out of the picture.

It kills me to think that these assholes that I vote for every year or so would rather take money and make laws to benefit the interests of companies like Microsoft and Disney than work for my interests.

Cringely also had a column on the subject of Microsoft.

My only question with all of this would be:
What happens when the costs of legal action exceeds sales for an extended period of time? Yeah, they have their cash flow, but that could only last so long. And the more of these law suits get settled out of court, the more of them there are going to be. So it seems logical to me to think that at some point, litigation may kill the beast. Although, it could probably go on for quite some time.

fwiw, you might check out the streaming archive that I've been putting together...

I finally settled on 24kbit/s (at 11Khz, mono). And so, they should even stream over modems -- and an hour of audio comes out to only about 10 MB...

Along these lines, I assembled a streaming version of Lessig's new book "Free Culture", with contributed readings by assorted folks...