Private Syndication RSS - More than it meets the eye: Get ready to pay for content
Private Syndication (be it via RSS or other formats) is back as a discussion topic - Dare Obasanjo mentions it as a RSS Bandit feature accomodation, Tim Bray lays out some commercial value-added from EBay or your bank and Dwight Shih's 'Say No To Private Syndication'. The latter views it more as an issue of risk in privacy and trust. I view it as a "new News market" evolution - quite soon, you will pay for content from the RSS Pundits (via PayPal integrated into their weblog site of course). Feeding you expert opinions, advice and rubric that you can't get anywhere else fast.
Why so? Private syndication RSS feeds would enjoy more First Amendment freedoms like the HBO TV channel and soon, Howard Stern on Sirius satellite radio and you may get away with similar law-suits currently faced by ThinkSecret.