Ted, it is truly a pleasure to encounter such intelligence and common sense as I do in reading what you wrote. I thoroughly agree with every point you make, yet I still so nothing in it to contradict what I've said, namely, that the best thing we can do right now is begin forging alliances with our "sister" websites everywhere, who are fighting the exact same battle (or at least stand to do so).

Yes, burden of proof is upon them in a court of law, but they must know that they don't have to go that far to harass us into submission. You yourself pointed out that they are the ones with the deep pockets, not us. They're counting on the fact that Mudcat would back down because we can't afford even to deal with this issue legally.

I urge every 'catter who knows about other lyrics websites to contact the webmasters and start the ball rolling.