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[Lonman]

Originally Posted by muzicman144

Despite one's efforts to be completely legal, if someone stole your disc collection or it went up in smoke in a fire, or just lost, you become instantly illegal, unless one kept all receipts, which is unlikely for most of us, now i know a few will say i keep all receipts, but for most of us, after 5-10 years, we don't have them. What's the possibility of enforcement saying, "oh yeah, We believe everything you say".
Just a thought
muzicman144

I try to keep all receipts from the day I started buying karaoke discs, however I get many discs through customers that bring in their own that they are bored with & sell to me & have no records for probably about 100 or so privately sold discs to me - so there would be no way to prove I owned/had those.

[Garry A. Leslie]

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.