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Singers in a bar, Mike 'em like Kevin Bacon!!!"

There is actually difference between Music Maestro and BKD. MM produced discs and actually did license quite a a bit of their catalog. They paid a studio to create their masters and pressed discs by the thousand and later stopped paying licensing before closing down. The same can be said for All Hits. The others were merely spinoffs from the same guy who did SGB and he never licensed anything. That cowboy mentality is what contributed to the downfall of Sound Choice and caused karaoke to have the bad name it does with the publishers today and you me and everyone else is paying the price.

The big difference between BKD and the cowboys of the past is simple. They pay .99 for a track that they download and make a homemade disc and pay nothing to anyone. They contribute nothing to the industry or the artists who composed the work. They are bootleggers, but judging by your comments you could care less.

What makes you think we want a monopoly? I think competition is a good thing. We welcome it. But like anyone in any type competition - I want a level playing field. Karaoke is a specialized industry, I think everyone would agree. I don't go around "sullying" the name of any competitor that is legit - even those who are overseas and enjoy an unfair advantage over us. And the majority of people who post on here, who actually care about the quality and authenticity of the products they use know very well that BKD is a bootleg operation. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out if you have some morals and common sense. And no amount of Google Ad Words will change that.. But I get it, there are lots of people who love buying all kinds of bootleg stuff - have at it!

So go ahead and stick with their product - if you can call it that, while you can.

Um, very easily. I am assuming the exact same thing and rightly so. You CAN prevent discs from being damaged. Sure you have the right to be careless, but stop acting like careless is the norm. It's not. It's not like it's your car. With a car, someone else could run into it or any number of things could happen to it, but when it comes to compact discs, you can keep them in a storage case, never let anyone use them, and if you're careful when you use them, they will NEVER get scratched. Ever! Let me repeat.....EVER!

Who am I to assume this? Someone who knows it can be done, so get over yourself.....and grow up with the use of the ridiculous sized font. No wonder your discs are damaged. You act like a child.

...and stop lying. Pin holes don't just appear. Scratches do NOT happen from normal use. Scratches happen from normal use when in the hands of a child, or an adult who acts like one. Grow up and you'll have far less problems in a lot of other areas of your life as well.

Wow the anger here, tonight. Damn!!

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I'm not angry at all. I like new songs to sing and I don't care who makes them. If I had a band at my disposal, I'd make free karaoke for everyone.

@ Karaokelan

Where did I say that I was ever careless with my discs?

My post wasn't even made to or at you!!! Before you go passing judgment on
MY POSTS
go back a few pages and read where it came from. Even the person who KNF was posting to didn't say anything about his discs being broken or scratched. She just went on as if he did.

And there was nothing I lied about in that post. I made a very simple statement. Pin Holes do appear in discs over time (not on all discs). It is sometimes caused by simple deterioration (no matter how well you may take care of your CDs). I have had some CDGs sitting in my storage binders that have never even been played once. Yet, years later, when I went to burn a copy of them to have as a backup, there were a few I could not copy due to pin holes that had developed. As for scratches. the mere fact that a disc is spinning around at a high speed inside of a machine can cause scratches on the disc surface. That has nothing to do with being careless. It's called NORMAL WEAR AND TEAR.

I think you have a rather distorted view of reality, and a serious READING COMPREHENSION problem.



And who are you to presume to psychoanalyze me??? You don't know me! You don't know what my life is like!!!

BTW... Tough luck if you don't like the way I choose to use the fonts.

Obviously Bob (oops I mean Karaokelan) has never used his discs long enough to actually get any kind of scratches over normal use. Even ask Joe C - an avid 'luddite' disc user, even he states with careful use, scratches and pinholes DO happen over time. I've had discs that I hardly ever taken out of the jewel cases that became suddenly unplayable over the years. It happens.

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There is even a name for it: Disc Rot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot

Like this.

Hmmm Disk in Microwave ? ? ? I do not recommend this even to my worst.

@ JD - Funny I was waiting for mayo & mustard. for real or not - you want fries with that?

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Microwave? That's just plain dumb . . .

Everyone knows you need a 1965 Kenner Easy Bake oven with a 110 bulb to properly repair a cd. 8>)

Another quick fix - peanut butter
http://www.instructables.com/id/Fix-any ... ut-Butter/

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Returning to the original topic, our petition for rehearing of the case before the full Seventh Circuit is being filed momentarily.

And you will probably lose, AGAIN!! Give it up, already!! The tide is turning against you!! Not to mention, you are wasting the court's time and resources, and tax payer money!!

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Jim is just doing what lawyers do. postpone the inevitable with paperwork. In the meantime they go on trying to scare up the few final settlements that they can.