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[bose]

Hello Admin,

Here is why it's illegal. I suggest you speak to BC from Sound Choice who will more than likely back up this theory...

When you buy a karaoke disc, let's take a Sound Choice disc as an example. That disc is licensed. Right? Yes.

When you make a copy of a track or disc, you create an unlicensed copy. Whether it's a direct copy of the disc, or if you have extracted the tracks, compressed them, stored them in any format, be it mp3+g or any format - that file/data/music is unlicensed.

Now, if you're using that file/data/music for home use - fine - it's called fair use, and you're not breaking any law - provided you own the original disc.

Use those tracks in public, and you're breaking the law, quite clearly. Whether you own the original or not. The copy of the music/lyrics you are using is not the licensed one.

When you buy a licensed karaoke disc, it is THAT DISC and that disc only which is licensed for public use - not a back up copy of it, or a virtually stored version of it.

That is why running a karaoke show using Hoster (or any PC based software), where you are not playing the tracks from the original licensed disc is illegal.

Bose