Hummmm... how right you are!
However, once we finish our Microsafe security coding and link it to the website, we will have a mechanism to tightly protect producers work.
Then, we will do MP3CDG.
In fact, the KeyRite program can nicely be modified to take a CDG file and convert it to a MP3CDG format (and secure the resulting file to satisfy the commercial companies).
Question is whether to use MP3 which we have to pay royalties on every encoder/decoder we provide, or Microsoft's WMA which appears to be free... AND... gives an apparent double the compression of MP3 at the same quality! Thus, 22:1 compression WMA would sound equal to 11:1 with MP3. Very tempting!
A 3-minute CDG file requires about 32MB of storage. At 10:1 compression, it drops to 3.2MB and at 22:1 it is 1.45MB. Now that Internet download territory!
Our goal is to provide the tools for producers to make their work available on a song-by-song basis. Who knows, maybe we can even get rid of the discs too!