Well, if Dave Bulmer is such a crook, and the Jones Jihad'ers feel they can "prove" his guilt in public opinion forums such as this, why is it that the man isn't either rotting in the clink, or has been driven out of business by court judgments against him?

At the end of the day, no one has brought a successful case against the man, have they? Please do correct me if I'm wrong. Considering the amount of heat his name generates in English folk circles, isn't it a bit odd that he has not once had a successful court case brought against him? After all, Martin Carthy won his against Paul Simon, so it isn't as if there isn't some legal precedence.

The reason I've been so cantakerous is because the Jones Jihad'ers are such masters of misinformations, and so very good at whipping up this (as far as I can tell) unprecedented level of mass English folk hysteria about this one case. Which is not anything more than a morality tale for musicians--hire a good entertainment solicitor before you sign away the rights to your work.

Hey--it ain't just Nic Jones who has fallen victim to the vagaries of the music business types. Paul McCartney doesn't own the rights to his Beatles' songs either.