Unless I am mistaking, that goes into organisations that manage royalties for movies/music/etc, they take care of redistributing it. Originally, this was inten

Unless I am mistaking, that goes into organisations that manage royalties for movies/music/etc, they take care of redistributing it. Originally, this was intended in the era of audio tapes and VHS, where people would typically record off the radio or the TV. It was known exactly which titles were played when and how many times. They'd estimate some distributions from there, I guess it's more complicated today.