This is completely off-topic (though actually related, hypothetically and in an odd way) to the actual subject matter of this thread. Just in case anyone knows (or cares) what LC is blathering about, I'll make this brief statement:

(1) I apologised for the flippant way in which I had raised a serious matter (as I do often) concerning music distribution which has 'potential repercussions' on ARTISTS. Irony does not always come over well on line.

(2) It was no 'outburst' but evidence from an ongoing investigation into said distribution methods which had been put to the company concerned with no reponse. Since it is permissable to speak of those involved here (though not at the BBC) the precise matter may well re-emerge in this forum. It has before.

(3) Ian Anderson does not disagree with me. We have differences of emphasis on MySpace but on the matter of ripping off artists, we are one. (Oh, and by the way, he thanks you very much for directing people towards Vulturama . . . )

End of . . .