I recently had to implement code for DoubleClick tracking at my companies web-site and they really don't track all that much to tell the truth. What they will tell you is
1. How many unique users a page has
2. If a user was refreshing the page
3. click-through for pages you specify
Yes they do it all with cookies and a javascript implemented random number generator to defeat browser cacheing.
When I had to deal with the tech at DoubleClick for some QA he actually told me I had coded a page wrong so it was registering 2 hits for the homepage rather than a hit for each page. In truth I hadn't put any code at all in the second page just to see what they would say. Quite an incompetent bunch of people over there if you ask me.
Much like music videos you WILL embrace the distribution channel of the web. It is inevitable. All this lawsuit stuff aside, what are your future plans for distributing your music? Instead of being the first to "stop" the problem, why not be the first to solve it?
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I recently had to implement code for DoubleClick tracking at my companies web-site and they really don't track all that much to tell the truth. What they will tell you is 1. How many unique users a page has 2. If a user was refreshing the page 3. click-through for pages you specify Yes they do it all with cookies and a javascript implemented random number generator to defeat browser cacheing. When I had to deal with the tech at DoubleClick for some QA he actually told me I had coded a page wrong so it was registering 2 hits for the homepage rather than a hit for each page. In truth I hadn't put any code at all in the second page just to see what they would say. Quite an incompetent bunch of people over there if you ask me.
Much like music videos you WILL embrace the distribution channel of the web. It is inevitable. All this lawsuit stuff aside, what are your future plans for distributing your music? Instead of being the first to "stop" the problem, why not be the first to solve it?