Audit Complete.

We found a handful of fakes with very high quality labels applied to them. A little embarassing since I have gone through the collection several times in the past few months to ensure I had things in order and that my digital library matched up.

So, what were you told about the fakes they found in your collection? Were you told that you can not use them in your digital library, or can you continue to use them since it must be quite obvious (from the rest of your collection) that you purchased them in "Good Faith?" Were you told to destroy them? Did they destroy them? Knowing that a lot of SC discs are OOP (and the retailers can not restock on a lot of those discs), if you have to destroy them (or SC destroyed them), did they make any offer to help you obtain legit discs to replace those identified as fakes?

I wasn't told to do anything with them. However, I did pull them from my catalog. I retained posession but I did toss them out today once I re-verified I didn't have them in my library.

Also, keep in mind, the person I worked with was strictly there for an audit. Not to represent Sound Choice sales, marketing or anything else.

Chris is there anything in writing that they gave you that states the 2% tolerence rules? If not, it would be nice to have one posted for our records. Seems the rules change on this alot. I remember seeing it was 5% last year, and really wish I had saved that link, or printed it.

Jon

SUCCESSFUL AUDIT. The target you should be shooting for is where for every audited track, you own one legitimately acquired original disc containing that track for every individual machine (CAVS machine, laptop, or other device you use for media storage for a karaoke show) that contains that track. This is known as "1:1 correspondence." We recognize that discs do get lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed from time to time. A successful audit means that at least 98% of the tracks stored on your hard drive can be traced to a unique disc owned by you and in your possession. Of course, you will still need to delete tracks that you don’t have a disc for.

Here is a pic of a real and a fake side by side. Can you tell which is which?

You guys miss my point, you complied to being under 2% so obviously you spent a "great deal" of money already. Shouldn't that satisfy SC enough to use thier precious label on the bootlegged ones? Afterall this is about use of their label isn't it, or is it...

Jon

While I see it as very fair of Sound Choice to allow for a 2% variance, I am chooising to not use ANY tracks in my shows for which I don't have a valid disk or license for. I voluntarily pulled the counterfeit discs. Even if I would have been told "No worries, less than 2%, you are golden" I still would have pulled them.

For me, I am choosing to never allow myself to get close to 2.1% and fall out of compliance. I am sticking to 100% to help ensure I cannot be questioned about my compliance.

-Chris

While I see it as very fair of Sound Choice to allow for a 2% variance, I am chooising to not use ANY tracks in my shows for which I don't have a valid disk or license for. I voluntarily pulled the counterfeit discs. Even if I would have been told "No worries, less than 2%, you are golden" I still would have pulled them.

Just in case anyone is wondering, what Chris did is exactly the right thing, and what is required by the terms of the audit. You can still pass the audit with up to 2% variance, but you still have to delete the uncovered tracks in order to get to 100% compliance.

I understand what you are saying about the conditions of passing the audit, and the 2% variance allowance, and that somewhere within SC's policies, it is written that you still have to get rid of those songs and discs that fell into that 2%. Here's what I don't quite understand... After Chris passed his audit with SC, and it was pointed out that he had some fakes (unbeknownst to him prior to the audit) in his collection, why didn't the Auditor tell/instruct him that he now has to remove them from his harddrive and get rid of the counterfeit discs as versus Chris stating that he has decided to just do that on his own?

Of course we would have to delete it to be 100%. But you only require 98% to comply... Here's where we are personally, I'll be honest. We have a number of songs (30 or so) that SC doesn't produce anymore. If we buy the 6000+ songs we would be way under the 2%. After all, we would be spending 350.00 more on CD's to gain songs you do make, and these are songs I can't buy anymore, or I would.

Jon