Can someone named in a lawsuit cheat an audit and get away with it?

Probably, but what happens if you are caught doing so?

Does the settlement agreement suddenly go way up in cost?

How would you cheat an audit?

Do you have a printed book or an online book that has been available to the public for a period of time? I know I have books that are floating around the venues that are anywhere from 1 year old to 7 years old.

Do you swap out your hard drive using only the songs that you actually have?

Do you run out and start buying up CDGs to fill up the list of songs you have on your hard drive?

While some people think that neither SC nor CB do any investigating would it really suprise anyone to find out that they actually do a very intensive investigation?

These are questions that really should be answered but I think the answers are already available as some of our "friends" in North Carolina can now atest to! Some of whom very well may be members here.

Trying to cheat the audit will backfire big time, for some that means a much larger settlement for others that means withdrawing from a scheduled voluntary audit and trying to negotiate a cheaper settlement.

For those that still think this is BS please keep thinking that.

Oh Sh**, there's about a gozillion ways to cheat an audit. It's binary information after all and that can be pushed, pulled, encrypted, compressed, into just about any form you like. Then, use a kiosk not books. Good luck to anyone trying to figure your encryption scheme out.

I think you are missing the point of doing an audit to avoid a lawsuit!
Don't do the audit go forward with the lawsuit, have your stuff encrypted during discovery and lose by default, have a song not on the system that the investigator sang and once again you are still probably in default.

So the investigators sing do they?

I think you are missing the point of doing an audit to avoid a lawsuit!
Don't do the audit go forward with the lawsuit, have your stuff encrypted during discovery and lose by default, have a song not on the system that the investigator sang and once again you are still probably in default.

that particular scenario has bugged me as well Chip. i didn't have a lot of BYOD singers, but i know many here do have them, Joe & Lon i believe.... wouldn't that make it so playing an original manu disc that belongs to someone else is not authorized? if i don't have the song, tough $h!t???

Since it's not going to affect disc based operations anyway Joe is beside the point.

Why would you cue something from a patron's disc for someone other than the person the disc belongs too?

Why would they even believe that the song was in your system if it wasn't in the book?

If it is in your book why would you cue it from a patron's disc?

When I was taking patron's disc to play (few and very far between) I played their song and handed them back the disc when they were finished singing that song, so it wouldn't have been available for someone else to sing from (in my system). Now I simply don't take a patrons disc, (I don't have a CD drive in my show computer) unless I have a major computer crash and have to bring in the CDG player and disc, then we're are limited to the SC Foundations, because that is all I carry for backup.

All a host has to do is say Joe Doe is singing off their own disc. Problem solved. At least for those who have any common sense and who don't have p1$$ing contests for the sake of just having p1$$ing contests.

I wonder why it is that the cheerleaders are wasting so mucj time talking abou cheating audits. Very strange to me.

Birdofsong

What? You don't take a customers disc? Why wouldn't a certified, legal, legit, vetted KJ not take a disc.... especially if they have a covenant not to sue? Seems suspicious to me...