Welcome once again to When The Internet Attacks! On today's episode, we've got two great emails as well as an online comment. As always, these emails and comments are found during my day-to-day duties at Rogue Amoeba. First up today is Custom-tailored Pants Brian. Read on!

Brian's Email:
I understand that you have coupons or discounts available to purchase Audio Hijack. Please send me one of those coupons, or if that is not possible, please let me know where I might find them.
Thanks,
Brian

My response was simple, saying essentially that while we do have promo coupons, we certainly don't just send them out via email. But let's think about this for minute. This is not unlike walking into a supermarket, grabbing a fresh rump roast, then telling the cashier to mark it down because sometimes it's on sale. That takes some stones.

Now, I thought this was it, but I just realized that our second user email is ALSO from Custom-tailored Pants Brian! To his credit, he did purchase the software even without a coupon, which is great. After purchasing, Brian asked how to adjust the volume of a recording, and I explained that the volume of the source application affects the recording. For instance, when recording from RealPlayer, the volume slider in RealPlayer affects the recording. The follow-up to this is below:

Brian's Follow-up:
Paul,
If the source is the internet, how do I turn up the internet. The volume control on my computer makes it loader, but the meters don't show any difference.
Thanks,
Brian

"How do I turn up the internet?". I just love that. The best answer I heard was from Rogue Amoeba's pal David, who said "He's gotta drive down to the Internet's main server and turn up the volume".

Our last item is actually a comment, found on VersionTracker.com, a site displaying the latest versions of all sorts of software. You'll see that the follow-up comments are pretty supportive of us, which is nice.

Nice idea but it is only worth about $5. Overpricing shareware is a great way to sell very little of it. If you want the shareware model to work, try charging a reasonable price. This would not even sell at $20 retail where you would only get about $2 after the retailer discounts, packaging, shipping, media, etc. Get real.

There are two words for this user. One of them rhymes with "truck" and the other is "you". $5 a pop would be great, and maybe if every single user paid that, we could survive. If we all lived in cardboard boxes and ate dog food, anyhow. Honestly, this sort of thing is just asinine. We're professionals, this is a full-time job, and we take pride in our work. $16 is too much? That's not over-priced, it's the cost of one CD. Pricing is a difficult thing, but any full application under $20 certainly isn't overpriced.

Anyhow, that's all for now. Join us next time on When The Internet Attacks!, for more dumbassery from the Information Stuporhighway.