I know what you’re thinking: Another story on Luminary? Well, they keep making news. Start here if you want some background on why they’ve angered the podcast community and had a rough first week. (Previous stories here and here.)
Here’s the quick summary of where we left things yesterday. Luminary’s podcast app pulls in feeds from lots of publicly available podcasts. But a number of those shows have been asking to be removed. There are a number of different reasons, but the ones drawing the most attention yesterday were that:
(a) Luminary seemed to be making copies of podcasters’ MP3 files and serving the copies to its users — something that might violate copyright and definitely screws up podcasters’ analytics; and
(b) Luminary seemed to be editing podcasts’ show notes, the text that accompanies individual episodes, removing all the links — which are often important for fundraising, merch sales, and other forms of audience revenue.
Yesterday afternoon,…
