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I am not insulting you. I am calling you want you are - a publicly self-declared supporter of piracy.

-Chris

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And that's well and good. You are entitled to your opinion of me but that doesn't give you the right to alter my screen anme into a quote as if there is actually a member by that name.

I wouldn't quote you and change your screen name to let's say......Hmmmmmm...I don't know.... How about Sound Choice Booty kisser? I wouldn't bastardize your screen name. I would judt tell you what I thought about you....but when I tell people what I think about them; I get banned from the forum for a few months while you don't catch any grief at all for saying negative things about people. What I said about someone on this forum was also the truth but I got banned for saying it. Can you spell DOUBLE STANDARD? or even HYPOCRISY?

If you are PRO Sound Choice, You are allowed to do and or say whatever you want and if you don't ride the Sound Choice band wagon; you have to watch your P's and Q's.

You know what's funny about this? The Irony. That's what. The same guy who claims that it is wrong for people to take a Sound Choice track and change it visually so it doesn't look like a Sound Track any longer thinks that it is fine to alter another person's screen name when quoting that person. I believe that Chris has illegally changed the "Trade Dress" of my posts.

I suppose the difference being that I am calling you what you are where as calling me "Sound Choice Booty kisser" isn't even accurate. I am very critical of Sound Choice. I just don't do it in a malicious overly negative manner the way you and other anti-Sound Choice folks do. I try (though not always successfully) to be constructive, while others just hate.

You were probably banned for HOW you said whatever you said. Some people are more tactful and accurate than others. Also, some people heed warnings where others just don't get it.

-Chris

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An now back to the OP -

Always backup.
Test restoring your backups on occasion.
Always store backup hard drives in anti-static bags.
Don't store backup hard drives in metal safes or other metal storage containers.

Don't pirate.

-Chris

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Not to mention that kissing SC's a$$ (whether you do it or not) is not a CRIME.

Piracy, AKA being a thief & stealing is. No better than the Nigerian scam artists. How proud their parents must be of their leech children who choose to steal.

It's not a crime for me to know who the pirates are and keep that information to myself. If my favorite karaoke shows are run by pirates and they run fair rotations; it's not my job to bring them to justice.

No different than when I bring my car to the repair shop. I don't ask the mechanic to show me all of his receipts for the tools that he plans on using to fix my car. If he charges me half of what the SEARS guy will charge me. I'm going to take the price break, no questions asked. I don't care where he got his tools from. If my car runs well after he tunes it up; that's good enough for me.

I guess that means I'm a fan of car thieves who sell parts to unscrupuloous mechanics.

But as far as being a Pirate Fan; I always thought that Roberto Clemente was a great baseball player but I'm more of a Yankees Fan.

So stealing is okay as long as YOU benefit from it.

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I believe lawyer Jim said tim "it's all free as long as you are willing to assume the risk".

I guess he forgot this part - the jails are full of people who assumed the risk

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Really? The jails are FULL of karaoke pirates? Now I'm scared to use Karaoke Builder Studio any more.

Well I'm off to my local karaoke show where the host brags about having every song ever made. Roger is a Jolly old fellow who also plays customer's discs.

I can play discs too, bot no one seems to remember to pack them in the horse draw buggies when they stop by my show for a sodie water.

Bruce, if you ever catch a stagecoach out Seattle way, be sure to notify me by telegram in advance. We will get a room above the saloon ready. But be forewarned, we have electric lights and running water here in the big city. It catches some folk off guard!

-Chris

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The guys that drive the Horse Drawn Carriages around NEW YORK CITY; The Original Big City by the way, make a damn good living charging tourists for rides around Central Park.

The average Karaoke home enthusiast is still using a karaoke disc machine to practice at home so those people are still bringing discs to karaoke shows. I still get e-mails all of the time from on line karaoke retailers offering to sell me karaoke DISCS. Some KJs have expressed concerns over plugging in a customer's USB drive to the PC for fear of getting infected by a virus so bringing a CD+G disc is still the safest way to sing a song that the KJ doesn't have in his or her own library. It is also a little more difficult for the KJs to copy an entire CD+G Disc when you hand it to them when it is your turn to sing your song than it is to copy an entire thumb drive(Seconds). I don't give away free copies of my songs. That would just be so wrong. I don't make karaoke tracks for profit. I make them for my own personal use. I realise that if I sold just one copy of my karaoke tracks that they would be all over the internet in a matter of days. The only way to keep them as one of a kind tracks is to keep them from being copied so bringing them on a disc is the safest way that I can think of. One of the local KJs just wanted me to give him copies of all of my home made tracks so he wouldn't have to load the songs every time I went to his show. I made it easy for him. I just stopped going to his show. I didn't want to inconvenience the poor guy by making him wait 15 seconds for my song to load into his software program. I ran into the guy at someone else's show and he asked me why I haven't been back to his show? I love these guys. They have a 100,000 songs with about 75,000 duplicates of the same songs and they don't think that anyone should want to sing a song that they don't have. ;c)

Laugh all you want Chris still about 50% of my business is patrons wanting to use their discs they practice at home with. With the older crowd it is still a status symbol to have your own discs and not use what comes off the host library rack. That is why I still get new people more and more as hosts are abandoning being able to play discs and wanting you to use their PC canned music. It might just be in the minds of the singers they think the original disc is still the best way to experience karaoke. The old discs based hosts are becoming a thing of the past, it is good you keep up all your capabilities, and can still play the disc upon request.

Let's make some corrections here....



-Chris

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Come on tim if every law breaker was in jail society would implode trying to support all of them. Not to mention even the manus don't put host piracy as anything near even a minor criminal offense, it falls under civil law, remember?

With all this dumping of legacy inventory, I guess that puts a hole in the hosts hopes of their disc library being worth something at the end of their hosting career. If the manus ever stop their legal process ventures, I would think you would see the price of discs even collapse more. You can still get left over CB from Ace for $4.99 per disc.

I completely understand resisting change. I have experienced that phenomena for 3 decades working in the computer industry. The best examples are the consumers who are still running Windows XP.

If you have a 20 year old show that started on discs, your customers will have seen the discs, bought the discs, and know you play the discs. If you have a 3 year old show, running in a metropolitan area where the customers are virtually all under 30, many of them have never even owned a compact disc player or even a regular music CD.

*IF* I start a show in an area where the crowd is over 40, or I have people asking me about using their own discs, I can accommodate them.

-Chris

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I have one laptop with windows 7. I have three others with Windows XP. I have 6 Desktop PCs that all are running windows XP and one really old i-mac that isn't even plugged in so I have no idea what system it uses.

If I buy another PC and it comes with Windows 8, I will figure it out when the time comes but all of my computers work just fine and if they ain't broke; why fix them? I basically use 2 desktops and the others are all down in the basement inside garbage bags to keep out the dust in case I need to use one of them or give one of them to someone in need of one and they can't afford to buy a new one. I lost about 6 other PCs during Hurricane Sandy last year. Easy come easy go. I like old cars too. Most of the karaoke places that I go to have a crowd of people that are almost all over 40 years old.

Don't forget most of the hosts are in their 50's or older at least around here.