Given the recent changes in the policy governing Internet content
distribution, such as the institution of per listener royalties for
Internet radio broadcasters, content distributors now have an incentive
to under-report the size of their audience. Previous audience measurement
schemes only protect against inflation of audience size. We present the
first protocols for audience measurement that protect against both
inflation and deflation attempts by content distributors. The protocols
trade-off the amount of additional information the service providers must
distribute to facilitate audience inference with the amount of
infrastructure required and are applicable to Internet radio, web
plagiarism, and software license enforcement. The protocols can be
applied to other situations, such as auditing website screen scrapers and
per-seat licensed software installations.