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

[Brendan Molloy]

She said only last night on 60 Minutes that she probably wont make
another album because of music piracy! This woman...

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Michael Nadler
<michaelnadler at pirateparty.org.au> wrote:
> 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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