Is there any reason we can't just rip podcasts from these, post them in RSS feeds and have the non-owned apps list them for free - thus making them far superior by giving them access to all content?
The non-owned apps and people hosting the feeds would be complicit in the distribution of copyrighted content, which is illegal. Of course, that probably won't stop them. There are apps that do this for television, like ApolloTV and PopcornTime so if there's demand it will happen with podcasts as well