Podcasts seem to be the only type of media impossible to find on torrent indexing sites. I listen to a lot of podcasts since I have no friends and want to still engage parasocially. I’m fine with ad supported ones, but would like to explore some of the HBO-style ones. I’m not even a lost customer for them as I live below the poverty line. Anyone have info on this or are podcasts still too niche for the open seas to bother?
Edit: To those unfamiliar with completely paywalled podcasts (not merely pay to remove the ads scenarios) they’re quite common and frequently associated with Patreon. Many podcasts will have separate free & premium feeds, with the flagship serving as an ersatz ad for the latter.
There’s plenty of podcast piracy. For example, look on SoulSeek. Slskd is a FOSS client. Use it to search for user “podking.”
Podcasts seem to be the only type of media impossible to find on torrent indexing sites.
I haven’t looked, but I’m not surprised because podcasts aren’t really the kind of medium people would tend want to keep a large local archive of.
If you’re just looking for premium feeds there are sites like piratefeeds.net
Thank you so much, I’ll check this out! 🙂
I think the thing you’re looking for isn’t so much “piracy” but something more like “archiving” because typically you don’t paywall podcasts cause that was a good way to get people to know about your work/site. Honestly though, I don’t know of any site that really does that work outside of maybe archive.org.
You can’t “pirate” something that’s publicly available.
with the flagship serving as an ersatz ad for the latter.
These I unsubscribe from.
That said, you have a point and I’m checking out @[email protected]’s links now.
I just use antenna pod and if I wanted to I’m pretty sure I could download the episodes through that and put them on a server. I’m not sure what that would really accomplish for me though.
