I should perhaps add that this is not just a "let's wriggle out of paying copyright" thing. Proportionate fees that go where they should (at least mostly) would be a good thing. It's rather that this whole country is set up to serve the bureaucratic classes - small businesses, freelance workers, innovators etc. are generally not what it's about. Composers (including very much classical composers) resent the SIAE as much as amateur guitar bashers.

I'll get off my high horse mow before I start describing the way the SIAE operates!