This podcast is the second part in a series of joint podcasts by Game on the Street and Tech Shorts.
This part talks about gaming peripherals.
If you missed the first part, please make sure to subscribe to the Game on the Street podcast to pick it up, and to get the next part.
Enjoy.
Is it ok to create a podcast feed that links to an mp3 on someone elses site without that site’s permission?
Do you have an issue with that? Ethically? Legally?
Wait, don’t answer yet…
Gigadial.com is already doing this. You can create a radio station and select your favorite shows from existing podcasts to populate your station. Then gigadial creates an RSS/podcast feed that you or other people can subscribe to and they will receive the mp3′s from the site of the original podcast.
Is this in poor form?
Maybe you don’t think Gigadial is very controversial because most people who put out podcasts want to be downloaded as much as possible. But what about a situation where a site puts up a mp3, licenses it as free for download, but they don’t currently have it as part of a podcast feed?
Now, say someone else added that mp3 into their own podcast feed.
Is that not following good ethics?
Ok, so maybe you still think that is ok.
What if someone creates a podcast that contains several shows with topics that you are complete opposed to, and then in the middle of the feed they link to your show?
Some of the legal issues can be resolved by people placing clear licensing terms on their mp3′s. However, I think the ethics even less clear.
Personally, if people give permission to distribute their mp3 I don’t think there is anything ethically wrong with linking to it. However, I do have a problem with being associated with ideas that I don’t agree with. This doesn’t override my opinion that linking is ok, but I’m curious to hear what other people think.
Topics:
Palm internet application suggestions from Russell Hollimann
My iPod and how it can’t just get along with one of my Windows machines.
Halflife 2
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BEST WISHES FOR A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
I would like to send out a big Thank You to everyone who reads my blog or listens to my podcast.
Best wishes to the whole podcasting community.
I hope everyone has a prosperous year in 2005.
Topics:
Palm not ready for mobile internet?
DNS servers at home
Maxivista
LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth update
It has come to my attention that openpodcast.org has posted an MP3 that I only ever intended to be distributed to people that were repeated issuing GET requests to the same show.
I’m not sure how openpodcast.org got a copy of the MP3 file or why it would have been posted to their feed, but I have an email out to Ben to find out what is going on.
At any rate, I am posting another podcast with this explanation so that people can know that they haven’t been banned from listening to my show.
A apologize for this confusion and hope to get to the bottom of it soon.
I’ve added a page with podcast clients to help people that are new to podcasting or for people that are looking for a better client.
If you have a client that you would like to see added to the list, let me know.
I’ve also added the link to the sidebar.
Eric at Useless Miscellany talks about single click podcast subscriptions
Macs being easier to use is a myth!
The future of computing is going to be data that follows you around the network.
Music:
Headphones by Fluid from Magnatune.com
Rock N’ Roll Is Dead by Electric Frankenstein from Magnatune.com
Todays show topics:
My computer power supply.
The Nintendo DS was released today.
Halo2 update.
Where are the consumer electronics standards for control and data transfer?
Why do we have more than one cable to connect components?
How I do my podcast on Windows XP.
Does anyone have any good ideas for recording Skype conversations on one computer without the remote Skype listener hearing echos?
Music:
TS_GOTS_2005-02-20_jointcast2.mp3