THUGS!

When Miley Cyrus plays in a stadium, the promoters pay less than a penny per ticket to each of the 3 copyright mafias.

But if a church holds a folk concert in the basement once a year and they don't charge admission and they ask everyone to sing only traditional or original songs, the mafiosi still say the church has to give them 500 dollars for one year of copyright licensing, because it's likely that someone will sing something that's copyrighted, and it only takes one song to require the license.

They also say that if you have another couple over to dinner at your house and you play a CD or sing Happy Birthday, then you also owe them 500 dollars. Owning a CD only gives you a license to play it in your own home in the company of your immediate family.

This is not hearsay. I did my research on their own web sites: ASCAP, BMI, and the other one that doesn't have much but it has Bob Dylan. They're all thugs, intent on destroying music except as a consumer product.