1) Joe, What your posting is simply flat out wrong. Just like the arguments you made that wireless mics in the 696-806 microphones would always be legal. Lest there be any doubt.
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/wirelessmicrophones/ you were and are wrong, either by not wanting to believe those that actually knew the situation or you just wanted to hope you wouldn't be wrong.
I wasn't wrong when I originally posted, a new law was enacted, and now that post becomes incorrect. I would have thought that the new law would have never made it through. Hey, no one elected me God. That being said, what the heck does that have to do with the SC situation? Are you saying that I must be wrong about this because I have been wrong before in my lifetime??
1) Space shifting is NOT A GREY AREA at all. It is completely illegal to break the mechanical license. The reason that there isn't a ton of prosecution on it falls on two plates. One, to make a lawsuit viable they have to show damages. If you own an original & make one space shifted copy where is their economic damages when they are not providing a way to legally obtain it on the new medium. The space shifting is classified as a diminuetive offfense, meaning that there is little value to prosecution. Two the DMCA allows for software to be backed up. The jury is still out as to if music is software.
See my previous post to MM. It's the Sync license as software that I'm worried about, not the above- and I stated that I am still researching it.. Therefore, there is no "wrong" because I have yet to make a concrete statement- and won't without the facts.
Your tossing around statements as if they are true, calling SC a pirate or only being Semi Legal when of all the Karaoke companies,
Please re-read my posts. I never called anyone anything. I ASKED if one were to do as described, wouldn't that be piracy as well? See below from my post:
"Again, MP3s of karaoke tracks are still not legal in the U.S. no combo Music/Mechanical/Sync licence exists. IF SC produces karaoke tracks in MP3s- and admits it- they are admitting to piracy- how's that strike ya? Remember, even Kurt admits that they have no license to media shift." Where did I CALL anyone anything- I ASKED, or at worst presented a supposition.
they produce the best quality tracks,
Really? One would think that would be kind of subjective- and I disagree. You have somewhat of a legendary name in the DJ world ( I assume you are THAT Dr. Drax)- and well deserved. However, in the decades in that I have been in my business- that of a Karaoke Host- I have found it a bit less well known there. I'm afraid that I will have to continue choosing ( or allowing my singers to choose) "best" versions...
I have done my homework, I have read all the data presented regarding those issues. Have you?
Yup.
I regularly talk with mgmt at the labels as well as the Fox agency. They actually started contacting me back in the Napster days. it has led to a good relationship being formed.
Please become better informed on the actual laws governing these issues.
Ditto. I would also suggest getting a better idea of the style of posting done here. Negative personalizations are kind of frowned upon...:sqcool: