It’s Not Alright: Lily Allen Shuts Down Her Anti-Piracy Blog

LilyAllen1A week or so ago, British media whore Lily Allen got in a tiff with Radiohead, Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason and Annie Lennox, claiming such “rich” artists don’t care about stopping digital piracy because, well, they’re rich! So what’d she do? She started a blog! She even named it It’s Not Alright, a clever play on her first album. (Note the URL: IDontWanttoChangetheWorld.Blogspot.com!) This all seemed a bit, um, trite, especially considering how Allen rose to stardom via buzz on file sharing networks, a string of digitally released mixtapes (which used choice samples from artists, presumably without clearing them) and the cult of MySpace. It’s even funnier because Allen claims only the “rich” artists don’t care about file sharing because they are already rich. Sorry Lily, but we’re pretty sure Billy Bragg is always looking out for the little guy, and you, well, you were born to a famous British comedian and a movie producer, so we’re guessing times weren’t too tough at the Allen household. Nevertheless, Allen seems to have recanted her mission, as It’s Not Alright has been deleted from the pages of Blogger. (See here). Guess you really didn’t want to change the world, did ya Lily.

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6 Comments For This Post

  1. Paul Welsh Says:

    Waste of a pretty face if you ask me. No talent, can’t sing a note in tune, good riddance to her….She brought the worst type of illiterate utterances into the mainstream and as a role model was absolutely awful…bye bye, you won’t be missed by me anyway. At least I can turn the radio on now and not shudder because your records may now be played less – thank God!!!

  2. Boaz Cougar Says:

    I had to repost Alan’s humorous, and slightly overly vitriolic take on Lily Allen:

    http://www.cougarmicrobes.com/2009/09/lily-allen-downloads-alan-lily-allen/
    Don’t shoot the messenger :D

  3. mia Says:

    suspect this is more likely the reason her post was deleted:
    http://blogs.news.com.au/techblog/index.php/news/comments/lily_allen_shares_words_for_anti_sharing_blog_post/

  4. Davey Says:

    I wonder if there is anyone out there willing to take on this challenge.

    Thanks to Miss Allen it suddenly seems we are home to the most law abiding pop stars in the world. So why doesn’t someone mimic her blog. How about;

    IDoWantToChangeTheWorldCause

    And give us all a chance to post whenever we spot any articles concerning our lawful young stars breaking a law. I mean surely those good people never break any laws themselves do they? I mean it would be downright irresponsible of them to say its wrong to break one law but okay to break another…

    http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a177042/lily-allen-i-like-taking-drugs.html

    So the challenge is out there. I’m small fry but I’m prety sure some of you more techie guys could “take up the baton” on this one.

    Davey

  5. Valter Says:

    Alan wrote a new reply:
    http://kickupthefire.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/its-not-alright/

  6. madtheory Says:

    This is “non news” because it’s still on her myspace blog.

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