[niho]

We crawl and index freely available RSS/Atom feeds that podcasters publish. Technically (and legally) it's not much different from how Google crawls your blog. We don't currently host any content ourselves. But have plans to introduce a caching and transcoding layer to be able to guarantee a consistent user experience and low latency streaming. Which is hard to do when you don't host the content yourself or have any control over the coding of the files that is streaming.