Check out the stones on these assbags: “A car repair firm has been taken to court accused of infringing musical copyright because its employees listen to radios at work…The [Performing Rights Society] claimed that Kwik-Fit mechanics routinely use personal radios while working at service centres across the UK and that music, protected by copyright, could be heard by colleagues and customers.”
What’s the next step? Are we about to go after those shady ’80s characters propping up the oversized boomboxes to their ears?
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could be like here in france where music played in places of business are required to pay a tax/fee to the artist of each song… and there’s an annual tax on your tee vee here also. that’s why i get all my entertainment on-line 🙂
People read this site in France? Craisins.
I thought England actually had that first law (business taxes and fees), which is why this doesn’t seem *all* that shocking to me. If that law’s not on the books, then this is a bigger heap of rubbish than me thought.
Fuck it, beat them at their own stupid game:
How about a slew of hearing loss lawsuits aimed at the RIAA for forced headphone useage?
Jerks.
What’s next? The RIAA going after people for thinking about a song?
Wow, the RIAA is now finding ways to sue people by reading jokes we were making a year ago about how much more ass-hatted the RIAA could get. We need to track down whoever made the “Sue us for playing the radio out loud” joke first, and have them sue the RIAA for stealing their intellectual property.