Podcasts being scraped, ads stripped and resold (copyright & revenue theft)
Podcasters discovered an AI-driven service scraping shows, removing ads, and reselling content — harming revenue and raising copyright concerns. Community responses are operational (DMCA, registrar/payment-processor complaints) and legal (contacting lawyers) but creators need reliable processes and faster enforcement.
“I have just checked and my podcast is also listed. It has always been a totally free podcast with no paid advertising and so I have also asked them to remove it immediately.”
view evidence on reddit“Apparently, they use AI to pull down podcasts, strip them of their ads, then resells them to listeners for $1.99 a month.”
view evidence on reddit“I checked their site, found my podcast, and promptly emailed them to have my podcast removed (it's a clear copyright violation).”
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“Yes this thing certainly has every show in there. Contacting namecheap, cloudflare, stripe, and a DCMA too ... for my SEVEN shows that are not monetized at all that they're trying to sell acces”
view evidence on reddit“Best thing here would be to issue a copyright takedown request to their domain name registrar (which is a company called Namecheap ... to Cloudflare, which is acting as a DNS provider for the website, and to their payment processor, Stripe.”
view evidence on reddit“Contact Namecheap, Cloudflare and Stripe (links provided) and file DMCA and abuse reports.”
view evidence on reddit“It may be worth getting the lawyer involved. In some cases, copyright infringement can carry statutory damages, meaning they have to pay a certain amount even if they only earned $1.”
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