Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed
by dual_basis on Friday May 24, 2019 @07:48AM
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But what about when it has been tested and proven that people cannot discern the difference? I don't know if this is what was done with the per-title encoding that the parent comment was referring to, but I know it is the situation with audio. So many audiophiles swear they can hear a difference between FLAC and high quality VBR MP3, but it has been repeatedly demonstrated that, when presented with both, humans cannot distinguish them better than chance.
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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed
by krageon on Friday May 24, 2019 @08:37AM
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> But what about when it has been tested and proven that people cannot discern the difference?
The way people perceive (and how to measure it) is in fact not a solved problem. There are studies done and we can often say with a high degree of certainty that something is probably not visible/distinguishable, but claiming something like that for everyone is too strong and also misrepresenting the state of our learning.