Notices by :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸 (benjaminbellamy@podcastindex.social)

@dwev @js @Castopod @js
...and it will NEVER appear: "We use the actual media file url"
It does not use the "generator" tag from the RSS feed.
So each self hosted podcast on Castopod counts as one different host company. 🤦
I've been complaining about that for years but it seems that no one hears me screaming...
This is REALLY discouraging...
When I give up on all that you'll know why. 🤬

@dwev @aslakr @dwev@mstdn.dk @js @Castopod I am turning off notifications otherwise you'd hear me cursing all day long. I find all this extremely UNGRATEFUL and UNFAIR to everything we've been doing for this ecosystem and community for the past four years. All I'm thinking about now is completely removing OP3 from Castopod next release and never talk about it, ever again.

@js @dwev Is it better to have no data or wrong data? The accurate information is in podcast index though. The correct way to count Castopod would be the [generator] field.

@js @dwev There are now (at least) 118 podcasts using Castopod and OP3.
👉 https://index.castopod.org/

@pfefferle @tchambers @evan @dave @adam @js @Castopod @funkwhale @laurenshof
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🕹️ Now playing Karateka 🥋 on Xbox but I still have the original 5¼ floppy disk that I spent hours on almost 40 years ago! 💾

An American entrepreneur learns 18 years later that he escaped bankruptcy from a French magazine!
👆️ Behind this slightly exaggerated and clickbait title unfolds a thread with a preposterous twist, a twist that I witnessed… 🧵

It all started three months ago. I had just finished writing an article on the benefits of open-source software for Podcast Magazine.

I then had to write a long interview on the “Podcasting2.0” revolution🎙️2️⃣, interviewing @adam and @dave.
No wait. Back up. Let me start earlier. 🧼

18 years ago, access to online music gave you no real choice… It was either Charybdis or Scylla, piracy or DRM.
Quick reminder, DRM are as useless as a paper pan: it's like protecting a safe with a code whose combination would be written with lemon juice on a piece of paper stuck to that safe… 🙃
But that's not the point.

In 2005, all music sold by Apple on iTunes was still “protected” by the “FairPlay” DRM.
Therefore it was impossible to copy music purchased on iTunes.

Except that…

The Rogue Amoeba company distributes Audio Hijack software which allows to “plug” the audio output of any software to the audio input of any other. An innocuous but essential feature for everyone working in the sound industry...

Which also makes it possible to “take out” protected music from iTunes to “push it” into a recording software and thus remove the DRM protection, thus opening a breach for honest customers (they have paid) but libertarians ones (they want choose their software).

At this time, the RIAA, which defends the interests of rights holders, acquired an Audio Hijack user license…

At Rogue Amoeba headquarters where they saw the order placed by the RIAA, they were probably feeling the sword of Damocles getting closer every day, the sanction becoming inevitable, the worst was yet to come...

And then… Nothing.
Nothing for 18 years!

Until that day in 2023 when The Podcast Magazine published the interview I did with Adam Curry and Dave Jones. And for questions of accessibility to non-French speakers, I published an English version on the @Castopod blog.

During this interview, I highlighted the "Podcasting 2.0" revolution, a revolution initiated by my guests, starting from the origins of the Podcast, of which Adam Curry had been one of the most active actors, while debunking some rumors that I had heard.