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I might have inadvertently been too flippant due to a relaxed attitude regarding alcohol.
Selling people on MQA because they need the blue light to light up on their DAC is cynical but people are stupid enough to fall for it and I don't have time to fix that problem.
There is a problem with file sharing and possibly streaming where the tracks can be altered or degraded massively without any way of telling if you don't have the original to compare. This could be a big problem in the future. That problem already existed in mastering in any case, switched channels, channel imbalance, brick wall compression etc.
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without any way of telling
Well, there's always ears.
I don't get why anybody is still using any kind of lossy compression, that seems like it should be a thing which died out when we all got ADSL, since you can download 16bit/44kHz linear PCM as fast as you can listen to it once your data rate goes over about 1.5Mbps
Checking that a file is as it was intended to be is just an ordinary part of information technology and doesn't need proprietary methods.
Stopping piracy is basically impossible, anything which can be rendered to the human senses can be copied.
gbj_tester
Well, that's one way of looking at it. Critics of the MQA business model (rather than technology) have a substantially different take.