Probably largely the same reason that people hate lawyers: Anytime you’re dealing with legal rights and contracts, it’s a pain to get anything done. (Having just celebrated my fifth law school reunion, I should know!)
Case in point: I was thrilled to discover the Canadian radio show The Age of Persuasion, dedicated to a subject I’ve come to know and love (to the point of considerable repetition): advertising! Yup, that’s right, those annoying little ads that fund all the free online content and services we all take for granted.
Anyway, the good news is that the show is available online. The bad news is that it’s only available in streaming audio form—which means I can’t take it with me on my iPod, which means I’ll basically never listen to it. From Podcasting: what’s ‘holding up the delay’?:
Okay, we’ve got to stop meeting like this.
Time, she passes, yet the legals surrounding podcasting are yet to be settled. Meanwhile, our finely honed spider-sense (and a steady stream of daily emails) tells us many of you are wondering when an AOP podcast will happen.
Alas, for the moment, we are bound not to release Age of Persuasion episodes for podcast. (No, we don’t like it either.)
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