mikerob Wrote: > Secondly, as mentioned by others, why do they do podcasts in an "open" > format (mp3) while streaming uses a closed format and proprietary > player?
I believe it is a rights issue. Podcasts have all music removed (I believe), so they are only making available speech and content that they own all rights too. When streaming, they are playing music that numerous others hold the rights to, they therefore have to broadcast it in a way that makes it difficult for the music to be pirated from. That's my understanding anyway. -- Bruce Hartley ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bruce Hartley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18096 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
