Today is the beginning of the end of open podcasting.

Read these two pieces:

1 [recode.net]

2 [hotpodnews.com]

Let’s be real, this will jumpstart the walled gardens.
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Passed by: LonelyBob

@joe It will be a sad day when that happens for podcasts, but I think it was inevitable.
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@jmreekes Yep, and I feel that this could be the death knell for RSS since podcasts are the only ones left that it had an advantage over all else. Soon, we may have to use several apps in order to listen to podcasting content. :(

@mandy
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@joe
/@mandy I really, really hope they don't become paywalls
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@jmreekes @mandy We already have some podcast networks that has a paywall via their own apps/website (Earwolf and Podcast One are examples) and I bet the paywall trend will be even wider soon although right now its small.
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@joe
/@mandy Did not know that.
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@jmreekes @mandy Their paywalls are for the archive content mostly but I won't be surprised if they added new eps too.
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