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Wouldn't there be a conflict with Sting Ray if SC entered downloads? I was under the impression that Sting Ray was interested in the download streaming market to individuals and granted SC with discs in the commercial arena.

It seems to me on some days you spend more than 15 minutes on this forum alone not to mention the others you frequent. Also if you are so keen on your responsibilities to your client, why did Kurt feel it necessary to hire APS to represent SC as well as your office? Your services weren't enough, you couldn't get results like APS promised, but never really delivered? Also if you are so on top of everything Jim, how did a non lawyer like Bob in the Panama City case end up beating you at your own game? You weren't paying attention because you had it focused in other areas? That is why this legal process has been so drawn out with such poor results. Little money was available to put towards it in the first place, and only part time workers were hired to do the job. Try doing that in the construction business, and you will have a project that drags on for years, just like this legal process has with a less than 2% success rate.

The so-called typical "attacking a straw man" argument creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition by covertly replacing it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and then to refute or defeat that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the original proposition.

Now you are really grasping for straws.

All I am going to say about my CHOICE to do the day job is this.

I have a passion around technology and education. I believe that educating young people on technology is key to their success in the future and to solving some of the problems the world is facing for future generations. I am working on and influencing a global education program by one of the most successful technology companies in history. Knowing that I can impact something like that is very satisfying to me.

Wouldn't there be a conflict with Sting Ray if SC entered downloads? I was under the impression that Sting Ray was interested in the download streaming market to individuals and granted SC with discs in the commercial arena.

It seems to me on some days you spend more than 15 minutes on this forum alone not to mention the others you frequent.

For the record, I was asking about download pricing not because of an impending plan for downloads, or because SC is desperate for revenue, but because there is some disagreement--academic at this point--about how much SC could charge for downloads. The value proposition at $1.49 per song is very different from the value proposition at $2.99 or $3.99 per song.

I thought you weren't going to respond to me Chris, I guess it's true what they say "Never say never". I don't have to grasp anything anymore Chris. I have all I need financially. You seem kinda of torn between your day job and running your business. I thought you quit the day job to focus on the business. Now you are back at the day job, so that means you don't need to focus as much on your business? I guess you don't want to burn your bridges. I never quit my day job until I retired and then focused on my business. Then again that is just me, just like I never was interested in running a multiple show operation. If you get so much satisfaction out of educating others, you ought to look into going back to school to become and educator.

For anyone who is familiar with the concept of "average," it is not difficult to understand what I meant. I can understand why you wouldn't, though.

I don't "frequent" any karaoke forums but this one. There is one other forum I check about once a week.

If it were SC's intention to use materials in which Stingray now owns the copyright, it would of course need a license to use that material. That's not an insurmountable obstacle. New recordings would carry no such restriction. There is no "non-compete" arrangement.

So that means Jim some days you have more time on your hands than others? It would seem with 95% of the hosts being illegal out here you would be filing suits 24/7 at least until all of the GEM series has been licensed. After all suits drive sales, right? Oh that's right investigations, filing and court fees cost money. You can only go as fast as your means allow.

8) Who's trying to belittle you Chris? If what you really want to be is a teacher by all means be one.

I really do want to take the high road with you. I know it doesn't seem like it sometimes, but I don't have much patience or tolerance for intentional stupidity and ignorance.

If, at your presumed venerable age, you have not realized that you can educate with out being a teacher, then you should go back to school yourself.

Keep grinding that axe.

I would go back to school Chris if there was still something I wanted to study, or to get another degree.

What's wrong with being a teacher Chris? We all having something we could share with others.

I recommend you take some sort of Toastmasters type debate course. Seriously.


Nothing wrong with being a teacher at all. Much respect for them. My step-mother is a retired teacher. My mother-in-law is a teacher and works with special needs kids. Just saying that you can teach without being a degreed, professional teacher.