[FreeTally]

So how do you propose to compensate those who write music?

You mean they aren't paid unless ASCAP extorts money from private business owners?

Obviously, you know writers are compensated through selling the song to a record company(if they aren't a performer) and from subsequent sales of the song, if that's in the agreement.

[Anchoragite]

You mean they aren't paid unless ASCAP extorts money from private business owners?

Oh, the poor, hapless private business owners, who just happen to be stealing something they don't have the rights for...

Still nobody has answered why any of these businesses *must* have music, and why they should be entitled to enhance their business using someone else's work without paying for it.