Saying it with music: Dear Lily Allen
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Tsk tsk. Poor old Lily Allen is having a tough time of it.
She decided to step in on the file sharing wars with a blog post entitled It’s Not Alright, and slagging file sharers.
Predictably, and with not a little help from Rupert Murdoch’s Times Online and Myspace, where her blog post re-appeared, her ruminations became instant news.
Soon after, Allen deleted it from her blog. But her My Thoughts on File Sharing is still on MySpace under which says a comment, in part, “don’t let ‘file sharing’ get you down, isn’t that how you started out as well in the first place??”
Said the Featured Artists Coalition, with signatories including Radiohead`s Ed O`Brien, Billy Bragg, Annie Lennox and George Michael —- and Allen, who isn`t even a member »»»
We … wish to express our support for Lily Allen in her campaign to alert music lovers to the threat that illegal downloading presents to our industry and to condemn the vitriol that has been directed at her in recent days.
Our meeting also voted overwhelmingly to support a three-strike sanction on those who persistently download illegal files, sanctions to consist of a warning letter, a stronger warning letter and a final sanction of the restriction of the infringer`s bandwidth to a level which would render file-sharing of media files impractical while leaving basic email and web access functional.
Could it be iz lordship, Peter Mandelson, who floated the Three Strikes boat, is now bailing?
Be that as it may, “After Lily’s hectic week I’ve made a pro-filesharing song and video calling her up on a few of the claims she’s made,” emails UK songwriter Dan Bull.
“I’ve also tried to outline some of the main moral arguments for filesharing in the lyrics,” he says. “Hope you enjoy, and hope the p2pnet readers do too.”
Stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
slagging file sharers – Lily Allen disses P2P file sharing, September 17, 2009
Radiohead`s Ed O`Brien – Big Music vs The Invisibles, September 25, 2009
now bailing – Mandelson: shying away from 3 strikes deal?, September 25, 2009
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September 26th, 2009 at 10:03 am
this was cool – but too fast. i had to keep pausing to read it so i could understand it.
i hope he gets a lot of hits and maybe he’ll make a real music video of it.
September 26th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Very very clever and well done.
September 26th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Awesome, just awesome!
I’ll be sure to check out Dan’s other music.
September 26th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Nice.
Well done, great sounding. and extremely imaginative.
Pass it on
September 26th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Sheer Genius
Mad props to Dan Bull!
Best line ever: “when you’re between the devil and the deep blue sea, you have to stop worrying about pirates, and adjust your sails!”
Genius, as I said!
September 26th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
” January 19, 2006 – Thursday
MIXTAPE Track Listing
ldn – lily fix up look sharp – dizzee rascal dub be good to me – beats international smile – lily the potion – ludacris popshots – premier taxi fare – mr vegas who say meh dun – cutty ranks she taught me how to yodel – kenny roberts born on the bayou – creedance clearwater get out my life woman – lee dorsey stay with me – rod stewart up the junction – squeeze knock em out – lily Go Dj – jammin (zinc) Drifting – jammin (zinc) OI -more fire crewwwwww friday night saturday morning – the specials whos the bad man – dee patten joe le taxi – vanessa paradis (sorry) silly games – janet kay Cheryl tweedy – lily incredible – mbeat feat general levy ”
(The Quotable Lily Allen)
September 26th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Absolutely Awesome
September 28th, 2009 at 2:36 am
He did a hell of a job on that….not only was it a catchy song, but he said absolutely everything that needed to be said.
I’m also glad it’s getting as many views as it is. Currently at 109,000, and it wasn’t even posted three days ago.