Comments on: Culture Bully Asks: Is Lily Allen Full of Shit?

By: Chris DeLine

Chris DeLine — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:57:55 +0000

Some more info here: http://techdirt.com/blog.php?tag=lily+allen

By: Chris DeLine

Chris DeLine — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:41:49 +0000

From TorrentFreak yesterday, "Yesterday, despite saying that she would not attend due to a feared media scrum, Allen attended a meeting in London of around 100 musicians including representatives from FAC in order to find some common ground to move forward... Having ruled out going after individual file-sharers in court, they have put all of their eggs in a single basket which relies on ISPs taking disconnection action against alleged pirates. It is hugely unlikely that they will support these watered-down proposals but we wonâ€™t have to wait long to find out. According to The Times, the labels will meet this morning and are expected to draft a letter to Lord Mandelson shortly." So now the idea that is being pushed is to throttle bandwidth of suspected filesharers (three strikes rule)... huh? High data transmissions can occur from anything from streaming video to downloading from iTunes to online gaming to typical site maintenance. Doesn't seem to me like they're thinking this through. Oh, and for what it's worth - Ars Technica posted this yesterday, "The major music labels say that they stand to lose Â£200 million this year in the UK alone thanks to Internet file-sharing. But one of the country's biggest ISPs is now slinging around some huge numbers of its own, saying it will actually cost ISPs Â£365 million a year to adopt "three strikes" rules meant to stem piracy."

By: D-V-D

D-V-D — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:54:00 +0000

No no no. File sharing is just one way to get information across like any other form of technology. Just embrace the fact that its something that has to be done and that every can listen to you music if they really want to and if they really support u buy your music. That was a dead subject and only pursuing further action will divert the real needs of listeners into more streamed free music. Sorry Lilly allen. Listener one Lilly Allen, zero. =)

By: C-Rocka

C-Rocka — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:24:15 +0000

She should have been at that meeting after ranting about it. Allen could become an icon in the crusade to ‘stop’ file sharing. What I don’t get is how she says it hurts some musicians and she only speaks on the financial area, yes it does hurt their pockets but it gets their name out there!

Who know…if you say it stand by it.