Was wondering, with everybody and everything saying that it is illegal to play music outside a domestic setting and that it is highly illegal to run e.g. an online music radio station without a license, how much would such a license cost? Since that is never added, they just say don't do it, we'll get you.

Turns out it's twice €312 per year. Once for paying the performers, once for paying the writers. And you somehow have to tell the electrons to stop in their cables once they reach the border.

(Dutch prices for small noncommercial radio; for worldwide you have to pay similar prices in every single country in the world after somehow finding the local organisation for that)