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Thunder said:Like Harry, My show is hot for the area I am in and although I was dealing with several pirate KJs now this area is down to one who is running a show. Two other small but legit shows seem to have folded up shop here as well, so currently that leaves two legits and and one pirate here!
Sadly last Sunday was my last night for Sunday Karaoke at Applebees (pantops), the girl I had running the show allowed an employee to sign up for a Limpbizkit song at 9:30 when there were grandma's and Grandpa's and little kids in the place, It seems that screaming the F word at the top of your lungs is viewed as a bad thing (duh)! Although June cut the song imeadiately it was too late, at least one customer called the corporate office and complained, the Employee and Karaoke were both canned at that store! That is $400 a week that I will be missing for a while!
So someone who knew what they were getting into when they booked you were pissed when that song played? What the hell?
Now, as far as Harry is concerned: I know you mean well, but I think you're too much on the "I need to know if you're legal first" thing. I would want to know if it's good to be fast paced and get singers up as quickly as possible, or just be more conservative about the pacing. That's something that no pre-loaded drive or a bucketload of money is going to teach anyone. I wrote a long rant about my viewpoint about SC's stance on here, and from that, I'm sure some people might have an idea on where I stand on that.
Personally, and I don't mean this out of any disrespect, but you're reasoning behind why you won't copy a track for another person is somewhat flawed because you're already assuming that the person is going to make copy after copy, and you're viewpoint is too black and white when gray area clearly exists (which burns me about this whole piracy debate). I would ask why and what for first? Maybe they've been trying to find that one song and no one else had it, and that disc is now out of production (which are grounds as to why some courts will scoff at some copyright cases). But that's just me, and I'm sure I'll be in the minority. I just want to put out those questions as a sort of Devil's Advocate thing.
To me, if you have the talent to put on a good show, have good equipment, and consistently market your product to people who give a **** about having good people do the shows, then as long as you aren't in an over saturated market where there are KJs on every street corner, then it's not really going to matter who else is in the market and where the songs actually came from. I understand your plight, and it's a good point, but I think you've generalized somewhat too much there.