Anchor says it?s cracking down on stolen podcasts
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The Verge
Mike Mignano
Erika Nardini
Aaron Mahnke
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Summary
In an interview with The Verge, Mike Mignano, Anchor’s co-founder and head of podcast mission at Spotify, says the company is recalibrating its automated copycat detection system, implementing additional rules and checks on people who want to monetize their show, and making it easier for creators to report copycat shows when all else fails.Since August, publications like PodNews and Digiday have pointed out that Anchor has allowed users to upload rip-offs of legitimate, popular shows. The people who uploaded these copycat shows downloaded the audio from another source, manually reuploaded it to Anchor, and filled in the metadata, essentially making it appear to be a new podcast.This manual process, he says, makes uploading copycat shows more time-intensive and therefore less appealing and only achievable on a small scale.
As said here by Ashley Carman