Podcast theft whack-a-mole 0 ▲ Clark MacLeod 1 hour ago · Tech · hide · 0 comments Sunday night, and another illegal copy of Sleep Tight Stories turns up from the same perpetrator.Dealing with this is a real pain, and I'm happy to hand the task off to AI and remove all the emotion from the process, which is mostly form letters to the podcast host and Apple anyway. This time it put URGENT in the subject line, which I regret. There still needs to be a human in the loop, but it was Sunday night and I wanted to get out of the studio.The last time, the same suspect, going by the moniker "Te," inserted Amazon ads into the show notes and also ran programmatic ads for all manner of products, exposing potential young listeners to ad copy meant for adults. It also exposed their Amazon affiliate ID. I have it, and should have reported it to Amazon, though to what result I don't know. I didn't want to take it further.Usually I find these copies by chance while looking through old episodes, but last night I had Claude create an app that searches for duplicates automatically… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.