I apparently was unclear in my post. I have been through the Legal Mumbo jumbo and my company is now cleared but i settled i was not " cleared ", I just meant that we were now in the clear. Sorry for the confusion, I'm not sure why you feel questions remained unanswered, i have answered all questions asked to me directly and noone has pm'ed me about anything related to sound choice. I am also closely involved with 2 other companies locally who went through this and are now finished with it. I do not know of anyone who has even agreed to submit to an audit, until i read kurt's post recently, the paperwork i received stated that even one track which you did not have a disc for would result in a failing of the audit, not to mention that to even have the audit means you declared innocence and once you agree to the audit if you fail the settlement more than doubled in cost, you would have to pay something like 15,000 as opposed to 6,500. We decided this risk was too great considering over the years we have accumulated some tracks we did not have disks for. We have 2 sets of discs for ALL of the music we own, and in the days since we have verified that there is not a single track in our possession that we do not own a physical disc for. I do know that they are only auditing for sound choice products, they do have the right to report back to other companies ( In the legal documents Pop Hits Monthly, Pocket Songs, And chartbuster along with other i don't remember off the top of my head are named individually ) and let them know what they saw on your system and then they could bring more lawsuits against you separate from the Sound Choice Suit. There are no ramifications straight from Sound Choice regarding discs from other manufacturers though, they make that clear in the paperwork that that is outside the scope of their rights. If you have any other questions Eric and Joe feel free to ask them, I feel the future of Karaoke is looking brighter because of this situation. The people who settled and were pirates will be put out of business because they do not have physical discs to operate off of and the cost of buying a new collection is probably too great for most, i know because i have already taken over for one such companies gigs. And those who have the money will buy discs from all of the manufacturers making karaoke better for all of us and evening the playing field on selection and not having to worry about people having 100,000 tracks. I see nothing but good coming from this situation.
