Tragedy of the commons time another attempt to aggregate and redistribute your personal channels, this happened with Podshow about a year back  ( by accident  allegedly)  and a few other smaller companies that are attempting to recreate your personal channel for redistribution. 

The main issues are addressed here

Podcasting News » New SplashCast Feature Ignites RSS Hijacking Controversy

All Your Podcasts Are Belong To Us We highlighted our concerns about podcast caching or republishing in our coverage of SplashCasts’ new MyPodcastNetwork service yesterday. The problems with the service, though, go deeper. Geek News Central’s Todd Cochrane points out that SplashCast is republishing podcasters’ news feeds. Todd’s Geek News Central feed becomes Geek News Central Podcast by SplashCast Feed Agent — SplashCast Channel at SplashCast. While it’s common practice to offer services that build on the information contained within news feeds, and even to offer news feeds that contain content aggregated from other news feeds, republishing a podcast’s news feed with a new URL can create all sorts of problems for podcasters, and is considered RSS hijacking by many.

I'd like to approach this from another angle the basic idea, at least based on this solo sample of one user, doesn't fly for me. In fact as I had this thought  , a quick search,  damn it's already been  had.. by Dave Winer   that destination sites , aggregators for inherently portable media is a glaring contradiction. The need for intermediaries is lessened and I'm not sure I would lump directories into that role but in a mid space which I can't yet adequately define and won't call middle media,  meta media  or some other m and m's that I will sort through later.  

In real world terms  "RSS hijacking"   removes the direct relationship  on some, or all levels,  from the contents producers to their audience it's akin to taking all the newspapers from a street booth , pasting a banner atop  saying "my news" and then selling them onto people .. that's how  I believe most producers that care, a lot,  see it.  You can  see the  fun goings on here.  

Now I'm off to lunch to think about this.