"It is ridiculously disingenuous to wring your hands as if the artists who "signed away their rights," or however it happened, were canny, grasping, devious individuals who knew what they were doing and were somehow taking a high-level calculated risk with their intellectual property in order to make a quick buck or something. Your average soul in the folk music world is just not like that. Ordinary chaps and chapesses they were, and are, who on the whole don't do legal stuff not least because it's perceived to cost an arm and a leg, so they, foolishly maybe and I'm the first to admit it, let someone else do the unwise deals. In other words, rip them off." (from Steve Shaw)

Did Bulmer sign the contracts that r"ripped" these folk off? Not the way I heard it.