Two reasons come to mind that would cause a reversal of an agreed-upon position: 1) the end user violated the agreement; or 2) the company was found to have issued said permission in bad faith or without the authority to do so. If a company simply just decides to withdraw the agreement, at the very least it should cause severe damage to their reputation and credibility, since randomly making such a decision is not normal business practice.

Per Jim Harrington, sometimes companies produce and distribute without any documentation, depending on a verbal agreement that- for reasons unknown- does not reach reality.

In that case, the producer simply jumped the gun- permision was not withdrawn because it wasn't given in writing in the first place.

Again, this per Jim Harrington.

8) I'm glad that someone is trying to make things more simple. I know the more complicated they are the more you need lawyers. Would be nice if things could be worked out without them, but lawyers have to eat also.

He's right about that. When you dump 70% of the data in moving from CD Audio to MP3 at the maximum bitrate, the result may be acceptable, but a good ear can tell the difference.

I'd beg to differ on that one! Going through a headphone jack of the computer and a crap sound system, yes one would be able to tell a difference. However going through a professional quality audio card and a nice sound system, I would beg any audio purist to be able to tell the difference between a 320 mp3 vs disc!

but that is a different rant......back to your regular same ole same ole

Mr. Harrington,
This sounds like a court argument for controlling quality control of intellectual property rights against those that wish to media shift... legal yes, practical no... imho

Believe me, I did not intend to start up THAT argument again. It is incontrovertible, however, that downsampling CD Audio to MP3 levels, even at the maximum bitrate under the MP3 standard, does result in the loss of information that would otherwise be available.

Believe me, I did not intend to start up THAT argument again. It is incontrovertible, however, that downsampling CD Audio to MP3 levels, even at the maximum bitrate under the MP3 standard, does result in the loss of information that would otherwise be available.

That's crap and you know it. In a noisy bar NOBODY is going to notice the difference unless they are wearing noise cancelling headphones. The only parts of the sound that are removed are those that are beyond our hearing range, in a high bit rate rip. Now if you were to rip are 96kb/s it would sound like garbage. 128kb/s is the same as an ADD CD. 192 kb/s and up sound no different than a DDD cd.

People might not be able to hear the difference in that situation...but they can certainly hear the sound of the point whooshing over your head.

What's sad is that YOUR BOSS wants to control everything Karaoke. He wants people to just buy HIS product, even if he has to force them to, he wants the producers to go after everyone who has media shifted their discs, (since he can't legally do that. But I bet he would if he could). He's like a little Karaoke dictator. Personally, I think he needs to be stopped before he gets everyone in trouble for nothing.

where did you go?

Believe me, I did not intend to start up THAT argument again. It is incontrovertible, however, that downsampling CD Audio to MP3 levels, even at the maximum bitrate under the MP3 standard, does result in the loss of information that would otherwise be available.

Believe me, I did not intend to start up THAT argument again. It is incontrovertible, however, that downsampling CD Audio to MP3 levels, even at the maximum bitrate under the MP3 standard, does result in the loss of information that would otherwise be available.