This addresses the bandwidth problem, in a way: A web site owner will certainly service fewer RSS requests as end users start polling the central service instead. The operators of these central services will definitely have bandwidth issues of their own: they will now be at the center of all RSS traffic. There is a far more insidious danger inherent in this approach, however: a central point of control, failure, and censorship has now been established for all partici- pating users. A central RSS aggregation service may: (i) experience unavailability or outright failure, rendering users unable to use their RSS readers, (ii) elect to dis- continue or change the terms of its.
