and you need government intervention for this?
Another industry that has been killing itself - it is television networks (AKA the dinosaur media on FR) that engage in this practice. Who wants to suddenly be SCREAMED at by their TV?
At my house we deal with this annoying practice by hitting the mute button, subsequently it has been counterproductive for the those paying for the ads.
we do that too. Commercials are limited to the volume levels, however they find the loudest spike in the show and then set it to that level - they also use the compression as mentioned before - both of which are irritating.