Bob Olhsson wrote:

"Peter Larsen" wrote in message
...

[about mp3 trasher intended to be used to poison filesharing networks
with degraded audio]

... One does not
gain customers by offending people,

Experience in the retail industries suggests that this theory,
one that was commonly believed 30 years ago, is dead wrong.

Bob, we don't disagree on this. But it is a different context and
concept.

Prosecuting every single offender [ is efficient]

Yees, no contest.

no matter how young they are or how inexpensive the stolen
property has significantly reduced shoplifting in the United
States.

It is well known within the retail industry that it is the only
sustainable approach, I'm on the customers advisory board of the local
Coop supermarket, the policy is the very same.

The word gets around and the problem goes away because the
benefits simply aren't worth the risk. Word of mouth remains
the strongest agent for change that there is.

Yes Bob, this is obviously correct. Please be so kind as to take a look
at the binary usenet newsgroups. They are the real hot potato: instant
world wide distribution. However: everything that is posted on the
usenet can be traced to the ip-address it was posted on, it is not a
difficult pursuit.

Doing that in case things are not the posters to post would make the
point you want to get across. Poisoning the filesharing networks with
detectable degraded audio does not, it only offends people, it doesn't
scare them and it doesn't make them understand WHY they should want to
pay, it will only be just another nuisance.

Thank you for your comments, always interesting and to the point.

Bob Olhsson Audio Mastery, Nashville TN


Kind regards

Peter Larsen

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