Considering Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation and its Side Effects [Standards in a Nutshell]

Engineers are familiar with the law of unintended consequences, which states “The actions of people-and especially of government-always have effects that are unanticipated or unintended” [1]. Just like Murphy's law of “anything that can go wrong will go wrong, “ this is one of those laws we live with but didn't learn in school. This is a story of unintended consequences that are being played out right now.