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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 17th, 2010 @ 4:15am

   
   

   Some good news are welcome every once in a while.

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   how will PPL pay?

   

   ethorad (profile), Feb 17th, 2010 @ 4:40am

   
   

   I'm wondering how PPL will pay the £20m. After all, it's not like they have many assets since they'll have been distributing it all to artists over the years.
   
   Right?

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   Re: how will PPL pay?

   

   Call me Al, Feb 17th, 2010 @ 4:58am

   
   

   hehe very true.
   
   Chances are they can pay it out of the small change they find lying around their offices... that being the money for the non-major artists that they are waiting to distribute to the artists.

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 17th, 2010 @ 5:03am

   
   

   Utter nonsense! Collection societies are the BEST thing that ever happened to artists, and to music in general.
   
   (/s)

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   Ima Fish (profile), Feb 17th, 2010 @ 5:29am

   
   

   "...are almost always rent seeking..."
   
   When you seek payment via force and coercion the technical term is extortion.

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   Killer_Tofu (profile), Feb 17th, 2010 @ 5:35am

   
   

   My bubbles.

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   Crazy IDea...

   

   Crazy Old Man, Feb 17th, 2010 @ 5:59am

   
   

   If I were a pub or restaraunt, I'd approach local bands and tell them that I will play their music for free.
   
   If the don't want to play ball, there are other local bands that will.
   
   Heck, I'll even offer to sell their CDs too.
   
   Free advertising for them, free music for me.
   
   Screw RIAA and it's illegitimate spawn!

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   Re: Re: Re: how will PPL pay?

   

   Rasmus, Feb 17th, 2010 @ 6:16am

   
   

   Collections societies would be illegal if it wasn't for a very dubious exception to laws against anti-competitive practices created by the Bern convention.

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   Hephaestus (profile), Feb 17th, 2010 @ 6:55am

   
   

   Actually this is already happening in Australia. Where bar and club owners are getting together and finding CC and free music. If this were to happen around the world the labels would probably try to get laws passed to stop it. They were extremely fearful of a single 100 watt high school radio station boycotting artists supporting the Performance Rights tax. The station stopped playing music of these artists for a month.

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 17th, 2010 @ 7:52am

    
    

    "it's still worth noting that these groups, often with the backing of the government, are almost always rent seeking -- looking for more ways to get money out of organizations and individuals."
    
    they're lazy failures that go around extorting hard workers for no good reason and the government backs them only because they're also lazy failures and get paid campaign contributions by extortionist lazy failures.

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    Re: Re: Re: how will PPL pay?

    

    Some Other Guy, Feb 17th, 2010 @ 8:43am

    
    

    Have you paid for the use of that sarcasm mark? :)

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