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How to Podcast

Posted by michael on from the used-to-be-called-push dept.

ptorrone writes "Engadget shows how to get Podcasts on your iPod and for the DIY Radio enthusiast, how to make your own Podcasts using mostly free tools. What's a Podcast? To put it simply, a Podcast is an audio file, a MP3, most likely, in talk show format, along with a way to subscribe to the show and have it automatically delivered to your iPod or other music device."

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  1. Possible uses? by MinusBlindfold · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sports scores, weather, news reports, etc? Maybe a college professor can make his lecture available in this format?

  2. Why would that be your 1st reaction? by VidEdit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are lots of interesting legal uses for this technology. Podcasting is another step forward in democratizing the media.

    There is no reason to assume that the "podcasts" are of music, and there is no more chance of piracy from podcasts than from the internet in general. Characterizing people doing podcasts as people "doing undesirable things" is a presumption based on facts not in evidence.

    The automatic presumption that computer audio files==piracy is a triumph of RIAA PR but not an actual fact.

    More of a danger to iPods and iTunes would be the INDCUCE act and dis-information from Steve Balmer, who implied that iPods with their ability to play un-DRM'dmp3s were the primary vector for pirated music. In fact, iPods, with the success of the iTunes Music store, are the primary success story for DRM, and Microsoft Windows powered PCs are the undeniable leaders in pirated file trading.

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