You know, the subject is not CDG, or copies of CDG onto CDROMS, but importing the songs from the CDG to your hard drives and using the lap top as your CD player, not lugging those CDGs with you at all, but using a computer to be your player. All of those CD+G back neatly stacked away safe at home, nothing to ever get scratched, cause these files are stored on your hard drive.
now here is the real dilemma:
Example; A singer come up and brings their CDG disk, you import it into your system for them to sing, and next week, they don't need to bring it up anymore cause its now a part of your files. You are providing a service to them.
The files are on your system, unless you delete them after the show. Which I personally wouldn't have any problem doing, but who's to say that actually was done.
ADMIN NOTE: Hoster allows playing a CDG Disc a Singer brings to your show, and we automatically delete the file after it is played or Hoster is closed normally. However, if the computer (or Hoster 
) crashes before the song plays, the imported file is safe on the hard drive. You don't have to worry about having illegal files (i.e. you don't own the discs) on your hard drive.
This can't be compared to Napster, its not the same. There are several Hoster type software packages out there, all of them import the songs to hard drives, using other audio formats that that on the CD+G.
I am not a lawyer, nor do I feel I will ever have this problem, since I do not host the shows, but being the computer freak that I am, I immediately recognized the power of the Hoster type systems, and the software that MTU produces. And realized that the industry will have to change.
I can see that their will be license fees to pay for songs in the future, probably an annual fee with a service that updates your song lists for you or you could copy your own songs. It will somehow change because it will have to keep up with the technology.
The above hypothetical examples in my opinion would be illegal, but possible.
This topic is really a question of ethics and it is up to us to be ethical in these maters.
Alan
