With all the fooforaw about yesterday's update to iTunes, which incorporates podcasting, Ross Mayfield has pointed out that which everyone has missed: Apple has added DRM to podcasts for the first time:
Isn't anybody else concerned that Apple has introduced DRM into Podcasting? Adam Curry's headline PodFinder show is in ACC format! (and I can't link to it).
Update: Kirk sez, "I just checked my copy of Adam Curry's podcast from iTunes. It's standard AAC — m4a. It's not the secure m4p format, and it lists no FairPlay information anywhere in the metadata for the file. Unless the simple fact that it's AAC is "DRM," there's no DRM here.
"In fact, several of the podcasts are in AAC (m4a) format — it seems that all the ones made on Macs are AAC, as would be expected. Since Apple is linking to the original source servers for these files, not hosting them in house, unless the original producers of the podcasts are adding DRM, there's not going to be DRM on these podcast files."
