Lily Allen

[Music Head]

from nme

Lily Allen is urging fellow musicians to take a stand against illegal file sharing.

Speaking on her Myspace blog,0 the London singer called on other musicians to help her stamp out illegal file sharing.

"I think music piracy is having a dangerous effect on British music, but some really rich and successful artists like Nick Mason from Pink Floyd and Ed O'Brien from Radiohead don't seem to think so," she wrote.

"The Featured Artists Coalition [FAC] also says file sharing's fine because it 'means a new generation of fans for us'. This is great if you're a big artist at the back end of your career with loads of albums to flog to a new audience, but emerging artists don't have this luxury."

She added: "Basically the FAC is saying 'we're alright, we've made it, so file sharing's fine', which is just so unfair to new acts trying to make it in the industry."

Going on to talk about her own debt with her record label and also about record labels investment in A&R (Artists and Repertoire), she closed the blog by saying:

"I'm going to be writing [to] British artists, saying just this: File sharing's not okay 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."

[ambernector]

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."

But there are so many good ways already. Downloading music LEGALLY is much cheaper than it used to be. Plus you have so many internet radio stations and places like Last.FM, where you can virtually listen to what you want.

[jwee5467]

no matter how technology wants to develop, the most authentic way to appreciate music is sitting down on a stereo or record player and blasting the album. If we truly appreciate the music, they we should pay for a hard copy of the music, and i mean seriously you can always have a digital copy, but many years later, people will envy you when you have a hard copy (CD or vinyl) of one of the greatest albums on the 20th Century. Think about it.