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It appears that the GEM has accomplished this sort of thing, so far.

i think it was the KJMP and that would be a way to do the same for downloads IF they get back into production.

No they couldn't have taken songs from the drive - as a matter of fact they even highly recommended cloning the drive for back ups and storing the unlocked songs on a separate drive with backups as well since if the song was lost or damaged, you would either have to repurchase or do without. All moot point now since it's gone.

This is PURE speculation on my part, but if PEP/soundchoice gets back into production of karaoke tracks, I have a strong suspicion that they will only be selling them to People who are certified, are part of the HELP program or have a GEM license.

It is my guess that the majority of people in these groups are unlikely to pirate/distribute new tracks, ESPECIALLY if there was a way to trace it back to the original owner.
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... People want their stuff. I question if it is enough people to merit the costs and the costs have been much higher of late. Maybe they should poll their certified people to see how much they would pay per track. They would need to make money at it so people should be willing to pay more per track if that is what it takes.

I really like Zoom's approach.
100 mp+gs on a dvd for $30.

Out of those 100 songs usually 50-60 are songs people will sing all the time and you actually OWN the tracks period and the dvds are organized so as to help avoid duplicates.

An honest person who doesn't have much cash can gradually build a rather nice starter library out of those.

and the sound of zoom is much better then sc

You have to remember the UK manufacturers operate under a completely different set of laws and regulations.

You have to remember the UK manufacturers operate under a completely different set of laws and regulations.

Actually conservatives (Republicans) are into less regulations than liberals (Democrats).

The fundamental problem with your plan is this:

SC has never imposed any "post-sale, post-transaction fees" on anyone.

SC sold you a product, a compact disc. If you use that product as it's intended, you never owe SC another dime.

All of the various programs we offer--certification, HELP licenses, Safe Harbor, etc.--have come about because KJs want to do something different from what was originally agreed with that disc.

For many years, we said no.

Finally, when it became clear that merely saying no wasn't going to work, we offered you options. These options exist and are necessary because the KJs want to do something new. Those options carry rules. Those rules are designed to protect our brand and to give us a ready way to identify and avoid suing operators who follow the rules.

We are not going to stop suing operators who don't follow the rules.

We would be perfectly OK with KJs using their original discs exclusively. That's the original deal. If you want to go back to the original deal, where you use discs exclusively, you are welcome to it.

Some of you are OK with that, and we respect it.

Others of you recognize that the rules serve a purpose, and you're OK with getting certified and paying a tiny fee that covers a portion of our costs. After all, we don't benefit from your media-shifting. You do.

And then we have those who resent that there are rules. You're entitled to your opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts. The simple fact is that we aren't the ones who wanted the change. We are simply imposing conditions on our agreement to the change. If you don't like those conditions, use your discs, or don't use the brand at all. Either way, we're totally OK with that.