I'm surprised by how many people think an author's permission isn't needed. I wonder if the response would be the same at a community centred around writers rather than podfics?

For me, I post my stories under f-lock. I want to control who has access to them. I'd be more than a little upset if someone took one of my stories out of f-lock and posted it openly as a podfic. I know I'm fooling myself, thinking that I have any sort of real expectation of privacy on the internet, but I would still be upset if anyone deliberately circumvented what meager control I have tried to find.

I don't really know how I feel about podfic of stories that aren't under f-lock to begin with...