Podcasters Shutdown on .Mac



I am sure when Adam Curry was using Terabytes of Apples Bandwidth they realized they had a issue. Well today the blues are being sung by a large number of Apple users who have been abusing Apple’s generosity with their .Mac accounts, and now will have to go someplace else to find Bandwidth.

“Apple now limiting bandwidth on .Mac accounts July 20, 2005 – 07:00 EDT Apple has quietly added a new upgrade option for .Mac users. In what appears to be a new policy, users are now limited to 3GB of bandwidth per month, with an upgrade option of 10GB data transfer per month for US$49.95 per year. In terms of storage space, 250MB is included with a standard .Mac account, with 1024MB of storage as part of the $49.95 upgrade.”

I predicted this some time ago, and actually was surprised that the party has lasted this long. For the thousands of podcasters that have now been displaced, I have several services to recommend. A hosting account with GoDaddy or Libsyn would be the first place I would start. If you need a GoDaddy promotion code listen to my podcast the last one gave two out. [MacMinute]

About Todd Cochrane

Todd Cochrane is the Founder of Geek News Central and host of the Geek News Central Podcast. He is a Podcast Hall of Fame Inductee and was one of the very first podcasters in 2004. He wrote the first book on podcasting, and did many of the early Podcast Advertising deals in the podcasting space. He does two other podcasts in addition to Geek News Central. The New Media Show and Podcast Legends.


2 thoughts on “Podcasters Shutdown on .Mac

  1. You can also sign up at BlogMatrix.com and check out Sparks! the all in one rss aggregator, pod catcher, pod casting mixer and streaming Internet radio recorder.

  2. Some free options at this time are:

    Ourmedia.org and Switchpod.com

    I’m sorry but I hope this helps. And notice I said Free at this time.

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