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In a case reminiscent of the early days of the web, cybersquatting has reared it’s ugly head again. This time a podcaster has fallen victim to having her RSS feed hijacked.

Podcast Hijacked, Held for Ransom
The manner in which the purported hijacking occurred exemplifies the fact that RSS feeds are far more vulnerable to squatters than Web site domains. The method doesn’t require stolen passwords or other overtly illegal methods.

Rather, it merely involves finding a target Podcast and creating a unique URL for it on a Web site that the hijacker can control. The hijacker then points his URL to the RSS feed of the target Podcast.

Next, the hijacker does whatever it takes to ensure that, as new Podcast engines come to market, the page each engine creates for the target Podcast points to the hijacker’s URL instead of to the Podcast creator’s official URL.

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One of the first podcast receiving clients to debut on the internet was iPodder Lemon. Based on the idea conceived by Adam Curry, iPodder Lemon was for a long time touted as being the best podcast client available. Now it seems Apple is cracking down on those who use the name of it’s products and have taken after the iPodder Lemon team and forced them to change their name.

Scott Grayban: “Apple went after us over the “iPod” part in our name. The claim we were decieving users that our software was connected to Apple’s iPod device…”

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Geek News Central: Seems the National Football League does not like anyone talking football except for their party line. Check out this link

I went to the site. Seem this is the first real case of trouble over copyrighted material experienced by the podosphere.

Tags: iPod, news, podcast, podcasting, NFL

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Dave Slusher: “I’m in the process of changing over the default feed to be Bittorrent. I have thought a lot about how to do this to minimize the impact to everyone. I have decided on a long transition. As of now, the main feed is a hybrid. Beginning with the episode I’m posting right now, all newly published casts in the main feed will be Bittorrent in the enclosures. Until the old MP3 enclosure entries roll out the back end, the main feed will be a combination of both. I decided that if I did a radical switch and retroactively change anything, someone will be gratuitously downloading something they didn’t need. If I do the relatively gentle, slow swap, I think we can do the minimum of re-downloading.

If anyone has funky issues with this, let me know. Leaving a comment here is probably the best way because that will let others see your issues. My hope, fingers crossed, is that this transition will be painless and nearly issuelesss for anyone. Everybody should get the disclaimer/introduction file down, and most people should get the Bittorrent test file. Beyond that, all is well. I hope. I really hope.”

Works fine with the latest iPodder release, Dave. It was very fast and the time to download was negligible.

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The second podcast for Live @ The Daily Thing 10-26-04(9.1mb) is up and floating on the cloud. In this edition we talk about Konfabulator, announce my new project Yosemiteblog.com and waiting for the cops.

Ooops! Sorry. I put the wrong URL for the podcast. That’s what you get for being up at midnight.

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The inaugural podcast of Live@thedailything (14.7mb mp3 file) is up. It’s proof why you shouldn’t try to make a podcast when you’re tired.

Links:

Chris Pirillo

Dave Slusher

Featured Artist:

Arizona Dead Arm

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