[pp.au.general] Lily Allen doesn't mind burnt music

[Michael Nadler]

Lily Allen doesn't mind burnt music
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/3088482/Lily-Allen-doesn-t-mind-burnt-music

Lily Allen has made a U-turn in her stance on music piracy.

The Not Fair singer - who launched a scathing attack on illegal file-sharing
on her MySpace blog and attacked indie group Radiohead for giving their
latest album away on a pay-what-you-want basis - claims she doesn't care if
people copy her albums and sell them on for a profit.

Allen, 24, told UK radio station Key 103 Radio: "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."

In Allen's original blog post she said downloading was starving
up-and-coming artists of money they need to keep producing music, and
attacked the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) - whose members include Travis
singer Fran Healy, Blur drummer Dave Rowntree and Radiohead guitarist Ed
O'Brien.

She wrote: "I'm going to be writing to British artists, saying just this:
File sharing's not OK for British music. We need to find new ways to help
consumers access and buy music legally, but saying file sharing's fine is
not helping anyone - and definitely not helping British music."

The FAC recently called for the British government to abandon proposals to
cut off the internet connections of people who illegally download music.
Mick.
DSG.
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