Podcast hijacking...

Yeah, just when you thought you'd seen everything stolen / swiped / nicked / green-fingered out the door, along comes this horrible little thing.

Nasty man sets up website. Nasty man targets nice Podcaster person. Nasty man points his URL to the RSS feed of the target podcast, and builds up tons of links in search engines, meaning visitors hit the podcast from nasty man's site, rather than nice Podcaster person's site.

You know what's coming, yes?

Blackmail city, or the links get it! Wave goodbye to your audience....except....maybe I'm missing something here. Yes, lots of links in Podcast search engines or whatever will get hosed. But...assuming the guy doing the podcast actually mentions his URL in the show, wouldn't a sizeable chunk of the audience think, hang on, I'll just go to the web address mentioned in the podcast, problem solved? Well, doesn't look like it in the case mentioned, unfortunately.

Nasty...