Here you were , thinking the EXEC in the medicine industriousness could n’t get any more obnoxiously idiotic , when some Brits come along and set a raw measure for hubris . Yes , the UK - based Performing Rights Society — the Brit equivalent of ASCAP or BMI — wants to make listening to euphony aloud enough for anyone else to get a line an offense penal by 100 of grand of dollars in fines . fathom like an Onion article ? Oh , how I care it were .
The fool at PRS are suing Kwik - Fit , a car fixture string , for copyright infringement , claiming that they play their music too loudly and that the great unwashed can hear it . Yep , that ’s the offense . They lay claim that if you play music aloud enough for others to hear , it counts as “ performance . ” Of naturally , if Kwik - Fit had a license to play their medicine , everything would be bang-up . The terms of said license ? A mere $ 61,000 a year .
Are they insane ? badly , this blows my mind . By their logical system , you would need to pay up the label to mind to euphony in your railcar with your windows rolled down at a stop Inner Light if you were fork up pizzas or to listen to euphony at your desk at your office . Those all number as “ carrying out ” now , and if you ’re at a situation of stage business , they ’d better pay up . Seriously , will someone burn this manufacture to the terra firma and built it anew with multitude who have souls ? [ Ars Technica ]
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