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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