Are you telling me that every place that plays a song has to pay money? That is crazy. Pretty soon they will want money for people who still listen to the radio.
Not just that, but if you are a mechanic and have the radio on in your shop (even if the customers don’t hear it) you have to pay.
And they have shaken down bars for televisions too, there may be a Burger King commercial with a Motown song or something. Again, no accountability of what MAY have played so none of the collected money actually goes to the artist. It is a shakedown racket.