One of the main reasons podcasts are so popular is because they are yet another thing people can do with their iPods; just like obnoxious ring tones are popular with cell phones because they are somethine people can do on their cell phones. Also, it isn't really fair to say podcasts are "bad quality" because, frankly, the quality depends on that of the recording in the Mp3 file, not the fact that it's being downloaed by the user via a reference in an RSS feed.
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Not the way that malware makers tend to do things. Just look at the Sony rootkit.
Sounds like they are trying to improve the contest rules the open source way :)
One of the main reasons podcasts are so popular is because they are yet another thing people can do with their iPods; just like obnoxious ring tones are popular with cell phones because they are somethine people can do on their cell phones. Also, it isn't really fair to say podcasts are "bad quality" because, frankly, the quality depends on that of the recording in the Mp3 file, not the fact that it's being downloaed by the user via a reference in an RSS feed.