The patent was filed in 2009. I wrote a podcast fetcher for an obscure Archos device in 2005. It was hardly the first app like that. But just based on my own

The patent was filed in 2009. I wrote a podcast fetcher for an obscure Archos device in 2005. It was hardly the first app like that. But just based on my own personal experience, the things that this patent covers were in wide use at least 4 years before it was filed. I can't say I've read any of this in detail, but on the surface it might be the most ridiculous one of these patent stories I've seen in a long time. My thing was a fetcher, not a distribution system, but if there hadn't already been a well established standard for distribution (RSS), I wouldn't have had any reason to write it.