As ridiculous as it is they may actually get fucking money out of it. To play music at a level that is audible by customers you typically have to pay a fee of some sort. Hence why you purchase Muzak. Now, if they were playing a radio station they might be able to say the station pays copyright holders and therefore it's the stations burden to bare but if it was CD's there may actually be some payout.

This is fucking crazy.
-Dante

Good for them. STICK IT TO THE MAN.

Ok enough USA bashing... WE suck too!!

This, my friends, is what we call "petty".

An argument to be made for the other side is the promotional element. Seriously, a coworker may be unfamiliar with whatever albums were being played. And that's not a bad thing.

grasping for straws...

hahaha it has to be a joke

I would have liked to have been in the meeting where they thought about this.

"Let's think of places that we can hear music that we, nor a DJ, chose, and sue them."

Do they still wear the funny white curly wigs in court over there?

in retaliation, Kwik-Fit sue Snuff after they covered their horrid advert theme tune (commercial to you guys) 15 years ago (on flibbiddydibbidydob)

HAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAHAHAHA.HAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA. I'm gonna kill myelf. There is no hope anymore. Music will actually be illegal soon. They are just going to sue anyone that actually listens to music, and that will pay all the royalties.

SAMIZDAT will be the new method of diy record labels and bands.

Hey, if this means that we can sue all the retards that listen to loud music on their car stereos as they ride down the street, I'm all for it.

that's mest up

Recorded music should be outlawed altogether. That would solve everything!

Stupidest thing I've ever heard.

i cant believe punkNEWS put something up from the onion, and that people actually believe this story.

Jaw-dropping. Fucking jaw-dropping.

Does that mean that every kid that plays their car stereo so loud the entire neighborhood can hear is guilty of the same copyright infringement? For the sake of my neighborhood, I hope so. I'll start collecting license plate numbers tomorrow.

This is hilarious. Like when they sued guitar stores for customers playing songs on guitars.

yeah but kiwk-fit works for the devil so it's ok really

They really ought to learn to pick their battles.

I'm all for intellectualy property rights, but this is just very poor judgement on the part of the PRS. They'll spend more good will with the general public than they possibly stand to gain from this.

I guess technically they aren't wrong by the letter of the law and I see the basis of their argument because Kwik-Fit is a commercial enterprise, but its still petty of them to fight this battle...very very very petty.