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Originally Posted by cartunesdj
Regrettably, I have to agree with madjim. Thank you for setting the record straight ADMIN.
I had assumed "legally licensed for distribution" meant what I thought it meant.
But to your point, they are not making this statement with regards to digital download distribution specifically. Nor are they referencing what country(ies) they are "legally licensed" in, nor by whom are they licenced.
Looks like there's a lot more homework to be done.
Fortunately, I haven't downloaded the volume (or dollar amount) madjim has. Sorry Jim. Bummer news, eh?
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cartunesdj,
Thank you for your expression of concern over the lose caused by the shananagins these karaoke disc compaies are perpetuating.
It won't cause me much grief other than the time it takes to loacate and remove the KMA files from the hard drive. It will be fixed in no time, the ballance will be made.
When I started hosting karaoke, a music store in town was selling all of their Sound Choice discs for $5 each. I bought all of them that I didn't have. It was hudreds of discs so I saved thousands of dollars. As a matter of fact there were so many discs that the total amoout crashed the stores cash register system!
They had to ring them up as three seperate sales.
I see this incident as growing pains for the karaoke industry. Karaoke Monthly sells their MP3+G tracks on a disc for $10 a disc or $1.11 each (not too different from downloading) totaling $2.10 per track, less than Sound Choice custom disc at $4 per track.
I'll buy hard copies of the tracks that are sung frequently and delete the rest. It amazes me that I have over 10,000 tracks and my singers seem to sing the same couple of hundres songs no matter where I go. I can loose a few hundred tracks and still keep my singers happy.
NOW, I will delete the KMA copies of the MP3+G files that I don't buy a hard copy of from my gig computer but I will save the KMA copies of the tracks. Down the road downloading digital content will be a standard procedure and the companies that are "protecting their cash cows" (custom karaoke discs) will have no choice but to start distributing their tracks through legal downloads. Once this happens I'll put the KMA files back in the database of my gig machine. I believe it will be something similar to how the record companies had to embrace MP3's. Maybe one day we will be able to purchace our karaoke track from MTU as KMA file, HOW COOL IS THAT GOING TO BE!
GOD has everything under conrtol,
IT'S ALL GOOD!
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And this is their out or so they think.
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Dale,
Your statement reflects a thought I just had while walking my dog, why is it that the record companies aren't informing karaoke hosts that no karaoke tracks are licensed to be downloaded for professional use in the USA? It seems to me that this leaves a loop hole for the karaoke hosts.
SHOOT, IT SEEMS TO ME THE WHOLE KARAOKE TRACK PRODUCTION BUSINESS IS ONE BIG LOOP HOLE! I'm going to get my gig machine "legaled up" the best I can because it's not worth the hassel BUT it seems to me that if the record companies aren't concerned enough about this problem to inform anybody, that they won't be able to make a case stick againt an honest karaoke host who has made evey effort to be legal. It's very similar to entrapment in my opinion. 
Thanks as always!
Jim
