Quote by nicola
Everyone needs to calm down a little.
1) Podcast directories, like podcasts.com, are great places to get free links back to lushstories.com. We submitted our podcast RSS feed to a number of such directories, about 5 years ago. It's a good way to get free traffic.
Those directories, are meant to give full credit to the narrator, ie, a full link back to the page, from which the audio was taken.
It seems our "friends" at podcasts.com, no longer do that.
They mention us, but at the same time, there's no link. I don't like their tagging either, it has our main competitor's site in there.
I will write to them today, saying that unless they give us a link back from each page which has our audio on it, they should remove all our stories.
Before "going off" in the forums about these kind of matters, it's always best to check with either myself or Gav first. The same goes for blogs and other sites that might be using our story RSS feeds to add story snippets to their sites, invariably they are using them in the correct way, and we get a link back.
2) I am aware of the google play thief, and we are working on it. I don't expect we or anyone else will get any joy from them. They knocked back our APP 3 times, which was set up to help protect authors from these kind of story thieves. Our app was rejected, yet the others remain. Make of that what you will. I argued with them until I was blue in the face about it, they simply ignore you after a while. Such a wonderful business practice...
In fairness, I think I did...
The fact that they don't credit the writers is what got me (which I thought I made clear, even in my email to them and I did say how hard lush work on this, which I've seen in the past...
However, it does seem to be a perennial problem, so I think it's important to be aware? And with regard to copyright and reporting, again, awareness is important... I don't think there was any panic?
