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Keith and the Girl, who are fellow NY'ers but certainly not my favorite podcasters have taken on the almighty PodShow. Check out the post here.

What Keith and his gal Chemda have done is read the standard PodShow contract for podcasters on their show. They don't think much of the contract. I have seen the contract and had it in my hands. I hate to say that I agree with them.

The contract is highly restrictive and only guarantees small payments for podcasters who reach 100,000 downloads a month. It's certainly not enough money to quit your day job or even your night job.

My initial thought on seeing the contract was that it was pretty insulting. The thing that was insulting was the fact that it was so obvious that this was just a legal way of acquiring content with very little risk. You basically give away anything and the most you can get is $400 per month. That's not going to allow anyone to quit any job.

All that said, people have the right to make their own choices. And there's no gun to anyone's head who is signing this contract. In fact, many people are very excited about "signing" with PodShow. So Adam, Ron and Co. must be doing something right.