[Ronin]

This is getting ridiculous. How long before they try to outlaw stereo speakers and demand that royalties be paid each time you play a CD at home with your friends?

Someone needs to tell these people to get a clue. All they are doing is building up a huge well of anger for themselves.

[weegee]

In America, they've already done the shakedown on bars that have a tv on because "there might be a tv ad for Burger King that uses a member's song". It's a shakedown racket. The mob was in the music business at least up into the 1980s. Rap labels still have gangster ties. Wouldn't surprise me that ASCAP, RIAA, and the major labels still employ crooks.

[eno_]

Ho ho! You are unaware then of the mob-like tactics of the music licensors.

Once they TRY to snag you, they want their hooks in you for life. If you try to avoid music represented by the major licensing bodies, they will sue you if you slip up just once.

If one of them showed up on my door, I'd not hesitate to sic a thug on them - they are no better.

[cherry]

Exactly!

can't dentists and others actually LISTEN to the CD's they buy?.....why buy cd's if you can't listen to them when you want to....at home, in the car, at work over a loudspeaker.....geesh