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Hey All,
Just a few thoughts on the current topic.
Over here in the UK, there are lots of companies selling licensed karaoke download tracks.
All sell well known ones i.e Chartbuster, Sunfly, Zoom etc.
These are licensed in the same way as Performing Rights licenses are granted
and a percentage of all money made go (I assume) to the owners of the material.
All venues here must have a music and performing rights license also.
So they are supposedly legal.
Anyway very few KJ's here use CDG discs anymore, and the ones who do are considered dinosaurs. I have noticed that they all seem to have longer arms than the laptop kings.
We don't seem to be stuck with the same sort of legislation you have over there, perhaps we're slacker, more tolerant or just can't be bothered, which is really surprising as we have a raft of pretty stupid laws anyway.
This use of laptops and computerised music must lend itself to piracy yet there doesn't seem to be any checks on it.
The thing about downloads is you can, if one wished, download them from anywhere in the world as well as peer to peer sites.
Regards from across the pond.
Garry.
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