Subject: RE: PRS at it again!!
From: weelittledrummer - PM
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 04:14 PM

yeh they're a gang of scufflers all right. its the fault of people like me (full members) who can't be arsed to attend meetings.

every so often they send me these awful magazines full of pictures, where clapped out rock stars from the last few hundred years hand over vast sums to classical scholars for writing a piano concerto that no one gives a shit about.

meanwhile evrybody plunders our music, and ludicrous stunts like this idiot who has raided the music shop....well it defies belief really!

Many people who honestly do not begrudge writers and performers what they are entitled to are placed in a difficult postion by this attitude from PRS members. Trying to run with the fox and hunting with the hounds is not likely to be helpful to either.

An attitude of 'I agree that it is terrible but oh dear, never mind' whilst they continue to receive their (perhaps in most cases admittedly small) returns and still do nothing or attend meetings - is hardly going to result in general public support for them and their organisations.

It is good to to see that some of these members themselves may be in agreement over some of these definitions and the actions based upon them - all taken in the name of these members - but they can hardly be surprised if a deep division appears between them and those who do consider this to be plundering our right to make our music.

That division is not desirable for anyone but it is certainly not the non-members of these organisations that are to blame. Members are being compromised by their organisations and it is up to them to prevent this.