We keep getting letters at work no matter how many times we tell them we don't have a radio in the office. In principle the PRS are doing a good thing, but in reality they are *****. They claim that if more than 1 person can hear the music you must have a licence, yet they made 1 bloke who worked on his own, from his house buy a licence. Also it doesn't matter if it's unsigned bands or bands with a label they still want the money off you.
Radios at work
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Nice idea
Fantastic
That's one of the reasons I can't be bothered to use my Archos in work... having to answer the phone if it rings mean I'd have to unplug or turn it off. Just seems pointless, so we just listen to the radio in the office now.
they send those letters out without proof
its basically to scare businesses that do listen to the radio without a license into buying one
the same happened to the company I work for so head office bought a license that covers every depot, I was told it didn't cost a lot , around £150 is what I heard although thats sounds quite low
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Get some headphones and listen to music all day.
Maybe I'm being stupid but why not just say you find the music they listen to annoying hence you're closing you're door and if they're feeling really claustrophobic they can turn the music off and you'll open your door.
I do, all they tell me to do is turn on my radio which results in departmental volume war that makes things worse. Glad you guys came up with the legal stuff may scare them into stopping (at least temporarily)
Not a headphone fan, we had a guy here who used to watch dvds all day so anyone wearing them is treat very suspicially
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Tell them it's against your religion.
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yea, PRS will sort it out, when your employer finds out they need a licence that must be renewed every year that will stop it
I received a letter at my work a few months back, couldn't believe what I was reading.... and binned it.
Month later, another one = bin.
Month later, a phone call, I said "hah, urm no we wont be interested in one of these licenses, and hung up "with the radio quite clearly in the background"
Aparentley they have phoned again, and the other chap in the office said we don't have radios.
Its a shocking scam, but somehow legal.
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If you think that's bad, at the mail centre they have the radio playing through the whole place on speakers, and my working class neanderthal colleagues treat our time there like some working man's pub's karaoke night half the time, and the other half when something I like comes on, they ruin it by whistling to it.