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Originally Posted by mindonstrike
At the risk of getting stung playing armchair lawyer again  - I'll bite. 
If that were true I could buy a HD with a 100,000 songs from KoolKaraoke on ebay for $500. and have a reciept from him or paypal or whatever and then claim to be 100% legal. Now if all your other stuff were legal you could maybe use this as a defense in court to avoid/reduce the fines or punishment, but I don't think they would give you back your HD just because you bought it in good faith. The more reputable the company you bought it from might give you a better shot at plausable deniability, but in the end I think you'd be ordered to cease and disist using those songs.
Just my opinion
Sam
PS: I just made up the Koolkaraoke ebay name for illustrative purposes. If there is an ebay user by that name (and there probably is), this would be purely coincidental and I'm sure he/she is a fine person. |
Sam,
If somebody buys 100,000 tracks at $.99 each they would pay $99,000.00. This would make the $500 price very illeagal (they are not paying writers roalayties). You are correct about KoolKaraoke selling illeagal tracks.
Here is the point I am trying to make. If I buy an single track from an online company that sells them LEGALY (they pay witers royalties) and it turns out to be from a company that only sells their tracks on disc, I feel I have paid for the right to use the track. The company that only sells their tracks on disc would have an issue with the legal company that sold thier track, not me.
I did not intend to do anything illegal. I paid $.99 for the track and I have a receipt showing I purchased it from a legal company. From my armchair I believe this would float.
Jim