What's happened? Nobody is helping my problem.

[George]

Glad we could help.

It is not illegal to make a back-up of your discs to protect your investment. There's a lot of controversy on that one, with the cdg manufacturers, of course, taking the opposite view.

What really gets you though is when you run across a cdg manufacturer who is really violating the laws.

I have a cdg disc that features Dinah Washington. There are 10 background and 10 vocal demo tracks. The arrangments are exactly the same as the originals(instrumentation and back up singers, and it IS Dinah Washington singing the demos. The Karaoke tracks have an occassional "ghost" fading in and out in intermittantly, and it is Dinah also. I have her LP's for comparison.

Conclusion: The cdg manufacturer took an original and did the best they could with vocal removal. Perhaps they figured she was dead, so what the heck, but there's still the songwriters and producers to consider. Thanks to Sonny Bono the material is still out of public domain anyway, so they were in violation.

And these people don't want us to make a back up.

Take care,

George