And the music industry solution is absolutely horrible. Every single venue that might have someone play copyrighted music is required to pay large annual sums

And the music industry solution is absolutely horrible. Every single venue that might have someone play copyrighted music is required to pay large annual sums to the RIAA, or get sued. There are armies of RIAA lawyers who go around to basically every business with a lobby and threaten to sue if they don't pay into the pool. There are entire companies who exist just to install licensed players in offices that are known to comply. Just imagining how awful this would turn out if applied to the world of software makes my skin crawl.