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Last Post 11/16/2005 3:58 PM by  Nomington
IMRO - new & improved
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Nomington
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11/16/2005 3:58 PM
    Sorry Folks, I previously wrote what may of been considered 'an accusation' against IMRO, I have re-written it and it is not intended to accuse or slander, it is simply something I have witnessed with my own eyes; My dad runs a small business, based in our back garden in a shed. Recently, IMRO sent him a bill claiming he owes them for royalties. The reasoning for this would be that a registered business is a public place and if he has a radio playing music, then they are entitled to collect royalties. However, this appears to be a serious mistake on their behalf, he has no radio on the premises! The bill states his 'account' needs to be cleared, however, he never set up an account with them. It also has a breakdown of the charges which I can not understand how these are calculated. I previously suggested IMRO must trawl through the golden pages to come up with numbers and am not accusing them of doing so but my point would be that it seems very random that my dad's business was sent this bill as they have nothing to go on other than assumption that he is playing music in a public place. I can't even see it as just being a mistake because they would have no reason to have his details in their database, they had to of been obtained from somewhere. From my dad's point of view, it does feel imtimidating to receive such bills. They have now sent him 5 in total, the majority of them being to clear his outstanding balance on his, so called 'account'. Just wondering does anyone have any knowledge of IMRO's policy in terms of collecting royalties with company's not registered with them or has anyone heard anything similar?
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    11/17/2005 11:00 AM
    If we're not allowed to make accusations against them are we allowed to insult them? What a bunch of twats.
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    11/17/2005 11:42 AM
    make IMRO history!
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    11/17/2005 2:36 PM
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    Originally posted by Unicron
    If we're not allowed to make accusations against them are we allowed to insult them? What a bunch of twats.
    Haha... I hear ya! Down with IMRO!!! This is some sort of weird, sad rebellion...
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    11/18/2005 1:01 PM
    I think IMRO are struggling to deal with Music piracy and trying to throw their weight around in other areas. Rather than a support network for Irish Music, they've been acting like a Police force and their muddled and confusing threats against pirates have detracted everyones attention from their real job, supporting artists. Sure, Irish recording artists need royalties and I'm all for this revenue being collated and collected properly, but when you consider that the VAST majority of monies gained are for the 'Louis Walsh ' and 'Principle Management ' gang, then you can't help but rally against them. It's been mentioned before that 40% of radio play MUST be of an Irish nature but it's a major cop out when you consider that Westlife, The Corrs and U2 are the main winners of this. It does sound like your Dad has been blindly targeted and in a sense, it's a bit like the TV licence man chancing his arm with warning letters, but from what you've said, that he works alone in a small shed, I'd be very worried.. I mean this obviously means that I could be billed for listening to my walkman??
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