--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Bill had a good point. iTunes *directory* is opt in. Most of us did it > by default when setting up our feedburner feeds. I don't recall ever > agreeing to any terms of service with apple though that compromised my > god given right to my permalinks back to my blog, or supplanted my > creative commons. Do any of you remember agreeing to anything when you > opted in through feedburner? > > And then there is also another point I must point out to Bill. > > I am NOT talking about the itunes directory. > > I'm talking about the business end of iTunes where you go to watch > your podcasts and video on a regular basis. iTunes IS absolutely, > fundamentally and aggregator, so bill is only half right. Wether you > "opted in" to the itunes directory or not... anyone can place your > feed in iTunes... and therfore there is a certain agreement... a > certain expectation that must be met. > > -Mike > he who loves to write even if he can't do it that well and has no time > to proof read. Sorry for any errors. > > mmeiser.com/blog > mefeedia.com
Fantastic! :D I don't know about your feedburner point, but I'll take your word for it. The only reasons I got involved with feedburner was to format my feed to go to iTunes and for (24-hour after the fact) stats. That's a great point you have about iTunes! :D I hadn't ever considered, and probably wouldn't ever have considered that someone else might go around making accounts for blog feeds they don't own in iTunes, MeFeedia, Fireant... whatever. You're absolutely right. It's not like Technorati, which requires you to prove that you own a site before they'll mark you as the site owner. As unlikely as I consider the situation to be, it's absolutely true that someone, anyone... could submit a feed to iTunes without the site owner's knowledge, necessarily making iTunes an aggregator, even if it's an unwitting participant in someone else's plan. Of course, if other people can post your blog to iTunes, Apple can post your blog to iTunes, which would put them in the same boat as "the usual suspects". :D -- Bill C. http://ems.blip.tv
