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VoloMedia now has the patent for “podcasting”.

Published in July 30th, 2009

A somewhat unknown company, VoloMedia, has been awarded a patent for a “method for providing episodic media content”. According to VoloMedia’s announcement on July 29, this covers podcasting in the United States.

At this point, it is not clear how this will affect commercial, semi-professional, and not-for-profit podcasting. Hopefully, this will not turn out to be another case of a patent troll jumping out from the shadow to stifle this important educational tool.

You can read the details here at Ars Technica.

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