Would like to see AntennaPod integrate an option to “zap” content providers as a way of direct support. “Value for value” concept.
I support this concept of micropayments and believe that we will see more of this in the near future.
However, although it’s an interesting idea, I believe it would require a lot of effort from the developers to implement it and, as the project itself doesn’t yet accept bitcoin payments as a means of donation and most podcast content creators don’t either, I don’t see it happening.
This is true. Another obstacle for us is the uncertainty this brings to the project in terms of the app being marked (e.g. in Google Play) as ‘payment provider’. We’d need to investigate and/or get advice on these legal aspects. We’d want to avoid at all cost any additional fuss or the app being blocked because we introduce such feature. So if anyone is willing to invest time in this, that’d help a lot.
We also have this feature request in our issue tracker: Support for podcast:value tag · Issue #4671 · AntennaPod/AntennaPod · GitHub
I also wonder if there would be a legal obligation to hold user details centrally (in some legislatures around the world) which would go against the whole ethos of the nature of AP?
I would not think so, if we just allow users to use their own payment providers and pay podcasters directly. But yes, that’s one of the things that should be researched.