I still say we get some kind of ip tracking on the factory image. If we could get the empeg guys to add a simple check to see if the empeg is online, if so, post serial number and ip address to a database. Maybe even the contact info from the empeg too.
Then when a empeg owner gets careless and leaves it in their car, they can pray that the thief will plug their deck into a net connection, and the empeg owner would get an email.
Something like that is what i've had in mind. I can even host the database if need be.
The only thing the user would have to do, is upgrade thier deck to beta 14