UK recording artist, and vocal anti-file-sharing critic, remarks that she’s fine with people selling bootleg copies of her CDs rather than sharing it for free with others since the person selling it is at least placing “some kind of value on” her music.
Lily Allen just doesn’t seem to understand music fans at all. Gifted as she may be as a recording artist she thinks that commercial pirates, those that offer copyrighted material for financial gain, are better than noncommercial pirates (i.e. file-sharers), those that offer copyrighted material simply so that others can enjoy it as well.
“If someone comes up with a burnt copy of my CD and offers it to you for £4, I haven’t a problem with that as long as the person buying it places some kind do of value on my music,” she recently told UK radio station Key 103.
Allen, if you recall, was the one who blasted file-sharing on her blog this past September as a “disaster” that’s making it harder for new acts to emerge.
She apparently failed to read the Harvard study that found the number of albums released annually since 2000 has in fact doubled.
What’s also interesting to note is that she seems to be taking advantage of P2P herself, using BitTorrent to distribute free copies of her Lily Allen: Remixed album. It lends further credence to what the Featured Artists Coalition, the target of Allen’s ire for for criticizing efforts by the UK govt for a “three-strikes” crackdown on illegal file-sharing, argument that P2P is an important form of “promotion.”
Allen may have labeled the FAC as being out of touch, but it now seems she’s the one who’s disconnected from reality.
Stay tuned.
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Who the hell is Lilly Allen anyway???
Lily is a good singer, but is a bad person.
Pff. Placing ‘some kind of value’ on her music? What does she mean? Are all filesharers saying “I hate this music by Lily Allen, so therefore I am going to download it to listen to”? Or does it mean that the only value her music has is financial? Either way, she’s talking as much sense as a bat’s scrotum.
I would even share or sell her ‘music’, I can’t stand the nihilistic trash.
She is a deeply retarded, drugged up, lefty mess, of little talent, who associates with talentless pop ‘artists’ (e.g. Baby Shambles), and supports Fascist ‘Anti-Fascist’ Islamist infiltrated organisations.
I don’t give a fig about the current morass of bankrupt political ideology, I just want to be free, to live life as I want, including P2P, in the nation I grew up in, without muppets like her ruining it all, by talking complete balls and supporting dangerous wolves-in-sheeps clothing!
She clearly has delusions of grandeur, and a misunderstanding of many topics
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1107462/Drugs-wont-kill-insists-Lily-Allen-yes-Ive-given-up.html
What’s she smoking?
So she’s in favor of organized crime making money off her work. Great – everyone loses!
Sure she wants you to sell BOOTLEGS – that’s even more illegal! It’s the kind of crime that will surely get you put away. Any time there’s money involved, look out.
ahahahaha – she’s such an idiot!
Here’s an excellent article on online piracy:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/nov/24/file-sharing-free-piracy
hellooooooowwwww!!!!!!!!!! she is not making any money there too.
the bootleggers are making the money.
So Lily is retarded? That’s good to know.
hyper-lol…
indeed she is …