Less than a week after the release of iTunes 4.9, the number of podcasts subscribtions is already huge. But that suddent success lead to significant troubles for podcasts authors.

How can success and popularity be a trouble? Actually, by pre-including podcasts in iTunes, Apple made an huge “deny of service” on most podcast sites. Bandwith limits just explosed and server went down. When receiving the bill from their ISP about bandwith consumption, some authors had to give up and stop their podcast activity.

The thing is that Apple didn’t give any notice to authors about their inclusion into the podcasts list and most of them were not ready to handle the traffic. That’s funny and bad at the same time. The good point is that if podcasting continue to grow like this, ISPs will have to provide specific offerings and infrastructure for podcasting.