They sold the right to pollute our minds. Without first gaining our agreement.

If 6 million of us take them to court individually. 6 million cases. Im pretty sure it would be game over for BPI.

The government and the courts would feel it where it hurts too.

In masses of unwanted costly paperwork.

Or you could all just sit there complaining and let these people walk all over you. Just like the sheep you are.

We had a problem with our old music “Royalty-free” I might add. They went after the people who supplied us and they paid up without even a wimper.

Also, doesn’t playing a radio in publec not count as the Radio station has already paid royalties.

I think the PRS is taking advantage of people’s desire to pay up and have a hassle-free life.

Wasn’t Muzak invented to get around this?

I think it’s more a dig at the police than the prs, they are completely within their rights to demand performance related royalties. How do you think musicians and artists make their money?

But in this one and only circumstance I am going to be a total hypocrite, GO POLICE! This law is really stupid and it’s public money well spent to fight them. We hope you win.

do they get exemption from paying their gas bill or water rates? the simple fact is in this day and age is that if you use it you have to pay for it.

While PRS may seem to be acting in a draconian way they are infact looking after the interests of songwriters and musicians that rely on royalty payments. This cannot be underestimated. theyre a non-profit organisation.

most of you seriously have no clue.

further ‘the head of legal services’ had instructed the force to ‘ignore’ prs. this surely doesnt seems like a responsible course of action? pure arrogance, which has ended up causing avoidable legal action. a further waste of tim and money

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I will contribute the License Fee(Music Tax) they have demanded to any charity or organisation that will fight this ludicrous twisting of the law.

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In what world are we living here?
Who actually doesn’t hear music while working… I doubt that it’s always silent in the PRS’ HQ either…

Quite shocking, in a positive but more in a negative way… this may slowly lead to global music listening restrictions… if piracy doesn’t OWN the world first… (which is probably the only help in this case, even for the police…)

Sounds like a case of double dipping by the corrupt and greedy PRS.

Listening to a radio in which other people can hear is not an infringement of copyright.

The radio station already pays a fee to broadcast it to their listeners.

You, the consumer, pay the legal fees to listen to it when you purchase the music.

I would also argue that there are many times I have heard someone else’s radio but wasn’t listening because it wasn’t my style of music.

This is another feeble attempt by a corporation to squeeze more mony out of us and have complete control over what we see, listen or do in our everyday lives.

And don’t go busting on how the police are doing the double standard because if you read other articles they did it to a bunch of car mechanics! You could be next.
Listen to music at work? You won’t be soon enough if this gestapo group has it’s way.

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The world isn’t going mad, the people who are going mad are these people who say that they are ‘speaking on behalf of the musicians’ who are usually doing no such thing at all.

Frankly, I am GLAD to see that someone is finally standing up to these leeches in court, and I really hope that the judge realizes what an absolutely INSANE argument this is, and dismisses the case summarily, with a big fine against the people who filed the writ.

using copyright law like this will hurt them

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Also, hats-off to enigmax for presenting the article in a satirical manner. Sample this “According to a report, the police in the county of Lancashire have apparently committed a terrible crime and let the whole country down.” LOLLLLLLLLLLL U made me laugh so much. thk u buddy

The licenses for this kind of thing went up by around 100% a couple of years ago. I know this because where I used to work the company had to stop playing music in the toilets due to the increased costs. This was really bad because there was then no escape from the sound of your neighbour shitting. Maybe the increased cost and indiscriminate nature of the charge is why the Old Bill didn’t get the license. The license applies the same for music in toilets of a public building as it does for a nightclub, as far as I am aware. Ridiculous!

The police, out trying to fight and solve crimes not related to 1′s and 0′s on a computer listen to music jsut to make their day SLIGHTLY more tolerable…and these morons try to sue them for it.

I’m pretty sure lancashire polices head of legal services > PRS’s lawyers though. haha

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If things do take a turn for the worse a minister of the crown can sign a “public interest immunity certificate” and block any further legal action against the crowns servants.

“The general grounds under which public interest immunity may be claimed include the interests of national security and good diplomatic relations; protecting the identity of informants or sources of criminal intelligence; and where confidentiality is necessary in the interests of justice.”
This is the new name for what used to be called “crown privilege”.

I,m 100% sure a licence will be obtained and this case quietly dropped

Such nonsensical rubbish is not needed to ‘support’ anti-copyright campaigners. All you’re doing is revealing your own ineptitude.

Fancy a police chief conspiring to defraud the music industry! Shocking. Or maybe it’s more like music industry paranoia and delusions of grandeur?

In which case, what does it say about their mental state?

Hey kids, when you drive down the road with your music blaring, you are infringing copyright too ya know. Be very afraid. Better stick to boomboxes -just annoy everyone and give yourself a concussion. Better make sure your musical horn has a licensed tune!

IT SHOWS THE SILLYNESS OFF COPYRIGHT LAW TODAY.

they will eventually end up telling these people to f*ck off and that there are more important things to attend to, such as REAL CRIMINALS. nothing but ridiculous greed.

The music industry is getting ridiculous as all hell.

Yes, you’re breaking the bands copyright infringement, they’re losing sales because you heard their song and didn’t pay them a dollar or however much for the listening rights.

Worse is for the band though, because they didn’t get a license for people on that specific block to listen, only for the private show indoors.

Hahahahahahahahaha! Good one Dinosaurs!

Now do the judges too because, you know, they are listening to music in their offices too without licence.

The music parasites RIAA/MPAA/BPI. . . are exactly like the islamo-terrorists: They don’t want you to listen to music.

(Note:Islamo-fanatics claim that music is against Islam and that god does not want you to listen to music.)

breaking your own copyright….

just wait till they copyright food………….