Afraid not. It is all about royalties. We got hit hard here in Vancouver because we had a radio station playing over our on hold music. Technically any business playing music is rebroadcasting it so royalties are due. A little ridiculous I know.
Same sort of thing for PPV's that bars order over normal cable as any resident would. Not allowed to do that as you could be considered to be making money off of the event. You are suppose to pay for the license to rebroadcast which of course is a much higher cost.
I think our fine was in the $20, 000 range. Some time last year this happened.
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