[LINK] music industry goes after public performance

[Brendan Scott]

Jan Whitaker wrote:
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> CAFE and restaurant patrons could soon be eating in silence, after a 
> proposal by Australia's largest record labels to increase the cost of 
> background music by up to 2000 times.

Don't they realise how expensive advertising is?  The cafe owners should be compensated. 
http://brendanscott.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/artists-should-pay-cafes/