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It’s easy to fill a platform with content if you just steal it.

The proliferation of automated podcast tools has reached a sadly inevitable outcome: WebinarTV is scraping open Zoom meeting links and turning call recordings into content for its platform without telling anyone. (Or paying for anything, of course.) Our friends at 404 Media have the whole story.

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