Hi Everyone,
Has anyones else's pub venue had a visit from the Performing Rights Society Gestapo, demanding many hundreds of pounds from an unsuspecting landlord against threats of court action which will cost thousands?

Our poor landlord was taken for over £700 on the pretext that someone at our folk sing-around might (repeat MIGHT) decide to sing a copyrighted tune. This is despite him already paying both the local council and PLL for the right to play music.
They said the money would go to the songwriters.....ha ha! I have written a number of songs that are sung at folk sessions round here and never received a penny piece from the PRS.

It is the big record companies that are behind this, trying to recoup the revenue lost through illegal downloads.

Has anyone else been able to successfully fight this self-appointed police force?