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The Podjacker Threat
Schlemphfer writes "As everyone knows by now, podcasting has taken off in a big way. But over the past week, several tech journals and The Daily Source Code have reported on the threat of 'podjacking,' the creation of an alternate RSS feed without the consent of the podcast's owner. I'm the host of a podcast, which has the dubious distinction of being the first widely-publicized victim of a podjacking. To teach others from my experiences I have posted an article entitled Preventing and Surviving a Podjacking (also available in PDF). So far this story has attracted widespread but generally
inept media and blogger
coverage. This article sets the record straight on what really happened, and shows the simple steps every podcaster should take to protect their shows from podjacking."
> Apple has nothing to do with this story, so I don't see why it's filed in the Apple category. Apple did not invent
> podcasting; they were even late adopters of it.
Of course it has. The Apple fanboy who "invented" podcasting, named it so to show off his fetish for Apple brands. Since something is reckognized mostly on its name, and history tends to be forgotten, Apple now practically both "owns" podcasting, and will be portraited as heving invented it, since its their product which is in the name, and, as this werent enough, it's the only portable player that gets mentioned every single time "podcasting" makes a story.