[brunoTbear]

I think the author's point would be that Apple is doing this to non-serious or not-serious-yet podcasters.

Let he who is without a data loss event cast the first "their own backups" stone.

Given that nobody else DRMs podcast audio, this is deeply surprising.

[ascagnel_]

Without having used their service, does Spotfiy not DRM their podcast audio? It seems weird that they'd have a separate code path to fetch a non-DRM'd file from their server when most (all?) of the music they serve is already DRM'd.