Thunder said:
Eric,
Your logic amazes me!
The actions of Sound Choice have no benifit to you for one reason and one reason only! YOU!
AND BY HELPING PIRATES STAY IN BUSINESS THEY ARE HURTING NOT HELPING ME BECAUSE:
1. I still have to compete against the very same pirates
Once they have a "paid for" library you are still competing with them but on a level playing field (that is what the problem was all along) Do you have $6500 to drop on a Sound Choice library right now? How about visiting the Sound Choice site and see what they have to offer you!
2. The pirates paid less for their TOTAL library (including tracks from CB, LG, SGB, PHM) than I did per track so they had discretionary funds to invest in other areas of their business, like setting up additional rigs on the cheap to further compete against me
You are correct they did! Now they have to purchase the disc for each of those systems or shut them down, again the playing field has been leveled for you!
3. Pirates can now state that they have been audited (by SC) promoting an aura of professionalism and legitimacy even though we now understand that the SC audit doesn't substantiate legitimacy of the total library or change the fact that they got into business as a pirate and on a pirate's budget!
It seems again that the answers are the same because the statements are the same. When Sound Choice is successful with the court actions (and probably just the settlements) the other manus will be following suit! Pop Hits Monthly has already began it's campaign to this end, Chartbuster and the rest won't be to far behind! With this happening do you really think that someone who has already gotten hung out to dry once is going to keep illegal files on their systems? I certainly don't think so! So again the playing field is being leveled (just for you)!
I have given up trying to educate you about auditing, now I find you clearly need a lecture in economics and logic.
Simply, if my competitorS are sitting with 70,000 illegal tracks from CB, LG, Sunfly, MM, SGB, ZM, EZH, DK, PHM, PLUS 1000's of recently purchased SC TRACKS, WHERE HAS THE PIRATE BEEN DISADVANTAGED AND HOW HAS THE PLAYING FIELD BEEN LEVELED FOR ME BY LEGITIMIZING A PREVIOUSLY ILLEGAL LIBRARY.
1. I have more than $6500 dollars invested in my library
2. Even after the pirate buys the SC inventory, I still don't have over 70,000 tracks in my library!
3. And how much would the pirate have to pay to legitimize his entire library?
Thunder by you and others stating that the playing field has been leveled doesn't make it so. And who is it that has the expertise to define what leveling the playing field would require in this regard? Certainly not you!
If left to me to define, I would only agree that the playing field has been leveled if a pirate (someone with virtually no discs) forfeited their illegally gotten gains, paid for their entire library and gave up every job that they run on an additional illegal rig!
So, Thunder, believe what you want, or say whatever you want in defense of an indefensible argument. Even Mr Cowles chided us that any professionally run business should easily be able to afford an investment in their business of $6500 and he went on to boast that he bought two SC libraries!
As to your suggestion that I should invest more money in my library just because SC is now offering deals, how absurd can you actually get? IN OTHER WORDS, are you suggesting that I will make more money, counter piracy and level the playing field by expanding my library which is lacking very little from my perspective and contributing further to the liquidation of SC's inventory?
And thank to your "heads up", I have looked at the current offers from SC and I might be inclined to buy one particular disc that contains some tracks that I wouldn't mind having for MY OWN SINGING ENJOYMENT and which would increase the number of SC tracks I own to 736!
And based upon the SC tracks I own, I can say with confidence that a sophisticated multi-rigger who wants to keep multiple rigs could settle one rig with SC and then primarily use illegal non-SC tracks on those additional rigs and turn them over to a friend, or family member or newly formed corporation to run!
And anything you have to add to your argument about the prospects of what other manufacturers are or might be doing is not germane to the discussion of what SC is doing. And I stand by every word I have said against SC methodologies and you have yet to provide a single reason why their efforts should be supported by KJ's or what makes their methodologies so unquestionably sound and flawless!
And Mantis, I saw the SC audit agreement on another site long before it showed up here. Diafel extracted it from that forum and posted it here for your benefit. But instead of seeing it's flaws, many of you too want to assume that it is flawless. Well, it is flawless if you happen to be Sound Choice. Have any of you ever heard of any business creating a legal document that wasn't written to cover their best interests? That's why contracts are negotiated amongst lawyers. And the primary motivation that anyone would have to settle with SC is the tremendous offer of gaining a substantial and quality library for $6500 which is less than the legal costs that would be required to fight just about any of the legal issues faced by an accused - another excellent strategy on Sound Choice's part is creating their flawless strategy that I will once again compliment their legal team on! BRAVO!
And I also want to congratulate SC on what is turning out to be a successful inventory liquidation sale! BRAVO again