August 8, 2005

iTunes Podcast Ranking System Easily Manipulated

It looks like iTunes doesn't record how many people are actually subscribed to a podcast but rather how many times the button is pressed. This makes the iTunes ranking as irrelevant as a list because just about anyone can change the results in iTunes by simply clicking on subscribe button 20 or 50 or 100 times.

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