Yes it is an eye opener! I'm a bit of a sceptic when it comes to something for nothing, being from Yorkshire Tha Noo's We have a saying if tha niver gets owt for nowt and if tha dose tha must keep it to thee sen! This site makes me wonder if they are making money by promoting MP3 players? I'm not really up to speed on the MP3 situation. But I did receive a link to my web site request from an Artist who wanted his site to be featured on my Rombalds Mummers site. I took a look at his site and apart from the fact that it did not seem to have anything to do with mumming. It seemed to be commercial in that he was selling his MP3 recordings. It even stated how much he had earned so far selling said recordings over the internet. So it was for both those reasons I did not give him a link to my web site.

Sorry I'm rambling the point is that Live and Unplugged looks, to me, to be to be commercial and using open Paltalk rooms for obvious reasons. Where the Mudcat is none commercial and requires a locked Paltalk Rooms where "Folk Songs" (what ever they are! Let's not get into that! Lets call them songs that are not going to make you rich!) So this eye opener for me is yet another reason why we should point out to Paltalk that we are not a commercial room and should not be described as such!

Perhaps Mudcat would be commercial if it charged people wishing to enter a locked room. You could do this by charging people wanting to get in the room for the password. In a virtual sing around that would be Pay to Play which as I have said I am against! So do we want a commercial open room with Artists popping in and selling there downloaded MP3 Recordings? Or do we just want a nice quite snug room where we can sit and share each other's music whilst also having the opportunity to chat to friends and fellow Mudcater's? Personally I prefer the latter! Even if the snug room is open too late for me to sing in it due to the 5 young children a sleep in the house next door!