Podshow Plus - evil or not?
Mark Hunter has an interesting blog post on some of the clauses contained in Podshow Plus terms and conditions.
Excerpt:
There’s also this;
Quote: PodShow may at its discretion place advertising before or after the Programming at its discretion.
This is interesting. Is there justification for PS to add adverts to your podcast just because you’ve got it listed on your personal page? If they were, for example, hosting the podcast files without charge to you as a the producer, then fair enough. But I pay for my podcast hosting. So are podshow caching my podcast on their servers, then when someone plays my podcast via my personal PS+ page it’s taken from their server and ads are auto-inserted?
In the interests of disclosure I should tell you that Mark used to be a Podshow host and is now a TPN host. But I think this is an important issue to clarify. If TPN’s shows are listed in Podshow’s directory, does this clause mean they think they can sell advertising on it and not share it with us?