I'm not talking about the discussion on this board. I'm talking about the practice of suing, legally attacking, the clubs. I agree with Brian. ASCAP and the other PRO's would, in the long run, be better off trying to educate and partner up with the venues. I think the goal here is to have more, rather than less, venues for live music.

I'll bet if ASCAP put one month's cost in money and time into studying and presenting the benefits of music, live and recorded, to a venue, rather than approaching them from an adversarial position, they'd end up with more revenue. We'd all end up with more music friendly venues.

The rest of my lament is about the turn of society in general, internet included, towards angry confrontation. We (all of us in general) are behaving like unsupervised children.

All the Best,
Mike

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You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

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