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[toofolkgr]

It's not free on itunes

really? b/c i've been getting my podcast from them for about 2 years now and haven't been charged once...gee, i wonder why...maybe they don't know who i am...no that couldn't be it, i needed to put all my info in when i registered...maybe they don't have any of my fianancial info...no, i've bought music and used my bank card so that's not it...i wonder what it could possibly be? o wait. i know. IT'S EFFING FREE!!!!!

i dunno what you're paying for, but that sucks dude.

I know the guys really like MyTown, but the reason you're getting the problems you are is that MyTown is using kind of an amateur hour method for the podcasting. This is basically what they're doing:

Every (day? week? month?) different RSS feed links are created for the podcast.

When you subscribe they give you one of the most recently created links depending on whether you bought a month or a year.

A month later, they delete the "Monthly Subscription" link. Or they don't, which means even though you only paid for a month, you get to keep downloading the podcast until they delete it. A YEAR later, they delete the yearly one.

But what happens if they THINK they deleted/deactivated a link, but didn't. Like let's say they check the box that says, "Yeah we deactivated that one," but they never did. Well I'll tell you what happens. You get to keep using it until the end of time, which is I think what you're doing. The thing is, podcasting does have a cost associated with it. If you're really a big fan of the show, why not go throw them another $30 anyway?

There are a couple of better models that they really should be using. One would be making a "premium membership" type model, where the FBHW site has a login and password. You pay $30 for the yearly membership. They host the podcasts, and when you go to download them it requires the same ID/PW you use for the site. It would require some work to set up... but all the software it would take is free and their revenue would increase because they would eliminate mooching.

I could send my current FBHW link to 300 people right now and they could immediately begin podcasting for free and nobody would know the difference. If it was a user ID & password instead, I'm not going to do that because they can detect the same user downloading it a hundred times to put the kibosh on it.

I know FBHW don't need to turn into Metallica and demand money for every single thing... but an annual podcast subscription works out to less than three cents an hour for all the content you get and it helps the guys pay for Joe stunts etc.

Again I know the guys are big MyTown fans but they are definitely paying too much for the website and the podcasting service (even if they're paying almost nothing).

Anyway sorry for writing a novel. Thanks to the folks who set this site up, it's great to interact with other fans of the show.