On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:16:18 +0100, Phil Da Lick! wrote:

> http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/p...factories.aspx
>
> Apparently this is law. Crazy. Songs on the radio have already been
> licensed for broadcast. This amounts to a shakedown to get paid twice.

It's always been like that.

SCA or SCA or something like that used to be in that business.
For a fee, you would get a special receiver that would allow you to legally
play music in a commercial establishment.

Popular Electronics magazine even had kits you could buy to pick up the
signals.

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Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:16:18 +0100, Phil Da Lick! wrote:
>
>> http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/p...factories.aspx
>>
>> Apparently this is law. Crazy. Songs on the radio have already been
>> licensed for broadcast. This amounts to a shakedown to get paid twice.
>
> It's always been like that.
>
> SCA or SCA or something like that used to be in that business.
> For a fee, you would get a special receiver that would allow you to legally
> play music in a commercial establishment.
>
> Popular Electronics magazine even had kits you could buy to pick up the
> signals.
>

Not any more. Now its 7.55 pence per half hour per 25 employees.

Whichever way, its still enforcement of paying twice. The radio stations
have already licensed for broadcast. It's a pissing disgrace.