Copyfighting with This American Life

Posted by Maximum Fun on 20th June 2006

Jon Udell’s blog describes a note he got asking him to take down his RSS feed pointing to This American Life MP3s on WBEZ’s servers. The folks at This American Life charge he is violating their copyright on the programs by doing so. He complied with the order, temporarily, he says.

Two points:
A) This American Life, in my opinion, is very close to being the greatest thing ever. As far as I’m concerned, they can do no wrong, even if their plan is to make one show over the next six years or whatever. I am looking forward to the TV show, I have donated to WBEZ, and I have heard literally every show.

B) Every digitized episode of The Sound of Young America is available as a free download from maximumfun.org. You may share these files non-commercially as much as you’d like, including transferring them to other media (like say, CDs to listen to in the car). Enjoy.