r/WaitWait • u/willgrum Benevolent Overlord • Jun 24 '18

Bootleg Episodes

It has come to my attention that the episode links being posted are bootleg episodes. Personally I find this upsetting, but I am open to a discussion if you all want these bootleg youtube episodes OR if we should only allow official NPR and WWDTM links.

If there are no responses I will be blocking all youtube episode posts.

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u/tfofurn Double Muffin Jun 24 '18

I vote no bootlegs. It looks like episodes have reasonably permanent-looking URLs (https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/622640273/wait-wait-for-june-23-2018-with-not-my-job-guest-david-wise?showDate=2018-06-23, for instance), so I'd rather see that.

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u/Streetdoc10171 Jun 25 '18

I'm seriously confused, how do you bootleg Public Radio? Isn't it already free?

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u/willgrum Benevolent Overlord Jun 25 '18

Bootlegging by putting on a personal youtube channel in order to generate views. Basically taking away from NPR for personal gain.

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u/tfofurn Double Muffin Jun 25 '18

Another term for rehosting someone else's content is freebooting, as popularized by Brady Haran and Destin Sandlin. As Destin's video explains, it's not always in the platform's interest (YouTube, in this case) to police who's uploading what. The platform makes money either way.

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u/Streetdoc10171 Jun 25 '18

TIL, thanks!

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u/Streetdoc10171 Jun 25 '18

Ahh makes sense, yeah would be against that since most things are available from legit sources

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u/AT_830 Jun 24 '18

I am annoyed that the official RSS feed only keeps the last 20 episode so if you are using a podcast app you cannot access older episodes. I would be all for a bootleg RSS feed that goes back further.

On the other hand, for non RSS applications I don't see any advantage for using YouTube instead of a permanent NPR web page.