Suibhne O'Piobaireachd - Surely you can see the difference between Peter Bellamy bootlegging himself and selling it at gigs for his own profit and a website which offers illegal downloads of dozens of artists? Surely, you can see there's a massive leap between those two positions.

Your first line - "I think a lot of us are in similar positions here" if you are implying that a lot of us are in similar positions where we stand on this issue, please, let me make it perfectly clear that I am nowhere near the position you're taking and I can't see many others who are on this topic.

Then you end with a little dig at folk club organisers, folk festival organisers and folk artistes for seemingly all expecting something for nothing. What complete hypocrisy considering what you're advocating is exactly that - something for nothing.

If musicians cannot rely on the support of their fellow musicians even - what hope is there?