On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 03:47:02 +0200, Michael Weischnitt wrote:

Fellow audio and music industry professionals,

I urge you to check out mpThrasher, a simple and free program for Mac OS
X that I wrote to combat online piracy via mp3 exchange.

In my opinion, the strategy outlined in my web page - albeit simple - is
the only one which really has a chance to succeed against the peer to
peer networks.

For those who have not read the website, this program works by making
degraded (but still playable) copies of mp3s. The idea I assume is that
people download them from p2p instead of good copies of the songs, and are
thus put off downloading.

This is still illegal, as I don't think there is any justifaction in
saying that it's ok to share mp3s if you have done a terrible job when
encoding them. No matter what your intent in doing so is.

Even if you had a thousand people doing this, the only effect will be mild
irritation, and perhaps more people restricting who they share with.


Please visit:

http://mpthrasher.altervista.org/

Thanks in advance and best regards,
Michael Weischnitt