I've just spent an hour or so looking through all the previous posts on DB and Celtic music etc. A couple of things spring to mind

CDRs
CM are not the only people pressing music on CDR these days. Many small to medium sized operations are now switching to CDR production, as this is the only economic way to handle a large catalogue given the costs of pre production, glass masters, etc. If you handle a catalogue of a few hundred titles, many of which are not the fastest selling titles in the world, it makes sense to utilse CDR and press "on demand" rather than tying up a vast amount of money on a large number of titles. I predict that within the next couple of years, many many more labels will be forced to run CDRs as standard, just to keep going.
Regarding CDR quality: Providing care is taken, there is no reason why CDRs cannot be as good as "regular" CDs. As I'm sure you know, many artists release their own music in CDR format and I personally have a large number of these in my own collection and regularly listen to them with no complaint.

Companies "sitting on" back catalogue
Surely DB is not alone in this. I would personally love Paul Adams of Fellside to re-issue the complete back catalogue of the Tradition label, which he bought a few years ago. However for whatever reason (probably commercial) he has barely touched it as yet. come to think of it, there are many fine albums that were released on vinyl by Fellside, but as yet have not been re-issued. The same also applies to Topic and most other "folk" labels. They will usually only re-issue back catalogue albums if they think they can make a profit from it. We have to remember, these are businesses, not charities. DB in this respect is no different from them.

Accounting / royalties / etc
EVERY record company should make sure that artists are paid what is owed to them. If they don't, they desrve their arses kicking. If there is a problem in artists vs Record labels, surely this is where bodies such as PRS, ASCAP should intervene.

Anyway, thats just a couple of thoughts.
Happy Christmas to all