tony sayer wrote:

Radio stations have to do PRS returns as well..


Yes, and these are checked against the returns made by the people to
whom the PRS pay a small amount of money to listen to those radio
stations and note down what is played. It works well, and has done so
for decades.


I reckon a lot of this has come about due to the amount of money they
are loosing through the loss of CD sales and the rise of downloading and
file sharing...


Indeed - the level of copyright theft is absolutely appalling. And it
is easy to see why, judging by the number of people on here who clearly
believe that they should not have to pay to listen to music.