Researcher sees huge growth in podcast audience | Tech News on ZDNet
9 July 2005
Researchers at the Diffusion Group predicted this week that the U.S. podcast audience will climb from 840,000 last year to 56 million by 2010. By that time, three-quarters of all people who own portable digital music players will listen to podcasts, up from less than 15 percent last year, the digital entertainment research group said.zdnet via http://www.kurzweilai.net/ The FCC will probably try to classify them as broadcasts soon. That would leave them open to being licensed like radio. Which isn't good--you pay a big license, pay ASCAP, BMI, and then they divide the money up as they see fit. Which would probably still be based only on corporate radio play. So once again the small artist would get robbed of their legitimate money. But I doubt the FCC et al can keep up with the pace of innovation. Law moves very slowly. Also, iTunes needs to support bit torrent downloading for podcasts. article on zdnet
