I can't stand it

[George]

Wally,

There was no need for me to say "unless it's a joint business venture". There was no mention of joint venture in any manner in any of BigMikes posts, and my response to you was very specific in those regards.

Regarding joint venture I think you're misinformed.

If investigated by the authorities, just saying it was a joint venture would not hunt for a minute without any documentation that the parties were presenting themselves to the public as a joint venture in some manner such as advertising, business cards, partnership tax returns, etc.

It has to have all the trappings of a joint venture in the day to day conduct of it's business.

Don't know why you're choosing to get arguementative for no reason. Why don't you get nitpicky with ADMIN also? He didn't say "unless it's a joint business venture" either, did he? No, joint business venture was not the thrust of the conversations.

George

I haven't seen the name of the software been used mentioned anywhere in this thread, so I won't mention it either (assuming it's the one I'm thinking of). If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's been around for a long time and sells for around $40 (no library included). But let's face it, it's not a complete hosting program like Hoster. Without Winamp (freeware) and a couple of plugins (again freeware) installed, it does absolutely nothing. You have to have misgivings about paying for software that relies on the presence of a freeware product for its functionality. Then to cap it all off, there are no help files provided with the program. Sure, it's cheap. But remember, you get what you pay for.

[Karaoke John]

Hi All, All this legal talk is making my Head spin. Before I bought my Laptop and the Hoster Program. I considered buying a Cavs Machine JB 199, It was advertised with 10 to 20 thousand songs on it for about 3500.00 dollars on up. Are Those illegal cause they aren't giving you the disks they are preloaded on a Hard drive. Course I didn't by that system They had weird songs in Vietnamese, and Korean on them but they did advertise having the complete sets of Chartbuster 450's I, II, III, and IV along with SC foundation, and Music Maestro. Which to buy would equal more than the machine itself.
Then there is the Computers that have all the software preloaded and they
no longer give you original disks, It is all very confusing . I certainly think that bootlegging is wrong. I have back ups that I have used for yrs due to some of my disks being damaged beyond fixing. But I never sell copys and that is what I think we are talking about. I guess If we really wanted to be techinical It could be deemed Illegal to play the singers private disks during a show. Yet I have and so has everyone else. I certainly have taken mine to other shows and sang off them because I am used to a certain disk. Anyway I hope that Big Mike gets up and running or has already done so and Has the best show in his area, "If You Play It They will Sing" Hoster is the Best and I'm Sure that Mike will blow those other KJ's Off the Map. When everyone hears about the quality of his show's.
John