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I have to say I take great exception to the last post complaining about "another piracy thread". SingKing is a small production company filling a niche that I am very happy they did. All of the Canadian manufacturers of karaoke media have all been driven out of business by pressure from the licensing agencies and particularly the azzholes and jerks that seem to think it is their god given right to STEAL (yes I mean STEAL!) from companies that pay for the license fees, production costs and manufacturing of karaoke media.

As far as I am concerned I would not care if there were hundreds of threads on this site about piracy and paying to legally use music for shows. I have no argument with anyone who media shifts as long as they have media to match the songs they use on a computer for doing shows.

I think the people who defend these priqs are just as amoral as the pirates themselves. I am really tired of the situational ethics that people use to justify outright theft. Big bad music companies, greedy karaoke manufactures and ooh big bad government stepping on my rights or ability to make money by cheating and larceny. Even the largest manufacturers are shrinking like Sound Choice, Chartbusters etc all have cut their production, catalogues and staff.

Ya' know what happens when you catch the last fish - we all starve! The artists, producers, manufacturers, resellers and the KJs need to be able to make money. If all the current manufacturers are driven out of business, all we will have left will be Madacy (dear God NO! - I think they should be named mendacity).

I personally have decided to make a stand. I may not be able to change the world but I can in my own corner of the world. I have stopped going to shows that have riggers as hosts and I will tell the management in no uncertain terms that they will not have my trade. My friends and I are all people that spend money at shows, not like the pop and water drinkers I hope these bars get. I have even gone so far as to contact Sound Choice to offer to help document shows using unlicensed media.

Sorry for beating my chest but this whole topic frosts my <span style=font-size:10px><i>(@$%&#!)</i></span>. I own over 350 disks and 55 LD. I am not a KJ but an enthusiast, if I pay for my music legitimately why not the hosts? I would love to the counter point to this if anyone is brave or stupid enough. Just out of interest, I also don't download unlicensed music or movies. I pay for what I use so there will be something tomorrow to listen to or watch.

That is my rant for the month...

Very Well Said! Thanky you for you support, we need more like you, any volunteers?

Once again, if you don't like a thread, why reply to it and thereby bump it to the top, assuring it gets more attention, instead of letting it die? Why read it at all (or continue to read it when you realize what it is)?

Thank you for all the complements I appreciate the support. I have decided that I will take a copy of either the KIAA letter or a press release from a company like Sound Choice and leave it with a waiteress or owner to explain my boycott in simple terms.

'You will lose my trade and anyone else I can influence not to come to your bar while a rigger is providing the entertainment." To the waiteress "You will not make any tips from me for the same reasons and I am a really generous person to my wait staff. I know it is not your fault but everyone pays a little price for this bull sh*t" If you don't kick them in the wallet - nothing will change. In Calgary I have many friends that I know will support my efforts.

I suggest the same action in your local market. Help the honest KJs trhive while grinding these bastards into the dust.

Hell hath no fury as a Terryoke scorned!

I am normally not this militant but this topic has got my dander up. Who wants to join me (Don Quiotoke) tilling at these windmills?

MickyJ, I am appealing to you to just skip the topics you don't like and don't deprive those who do find those threads useful.

And you wouldn't find them useful on their own forum? If it is coming to dominate the karaoke discussion forum, that is where they belong. In fact, I thought we were supposed to be discussing this stuff in the KJ forum.

Since this is a KJ issue, mostly, I believe it belongs there and not in the main forum. Let that be for general discussion. It is not that if it is all legal issues.

The Lounge was created to solve its problem, let another forum be created to solve it. Or open up the KJs only forum and let it get some traffic.

Since this is a KJ issue, mostly, I believe it belongs there and not in the main forum. Let that be for general discussion. It is not that if it is all legal issues.

But that's where you're wrong. The OP stated that another Manu. is going out of business. This is a KJ's issue and a Singer's issue (those that are hobbyists, who like to purchase their own discs).