Lily Allen certainly knows how to start an online dust-up. If it's not Perez Hilton, it's the Featured Artists Coalition, who she tore into in a recent blog post. And now Lily has managed to stoke up the ire of geeks around the world by launching a dedicated anti-piracy blog.She doesn't understand the issues! She's misquoting what FAC said about piracy! She's pirated someone else's blog post! Why does she think she has the right to pontificate about file-sharing being wrong?! And so on, often spiced up with an unhealthy dash of misogyny concerning her intelligence, looks and/or talent. How dare a 24-year-old woman tell people what to do with their internets?Actually, though, it's quite simple. Lily Allen makes music. She's got every right to sound off about file-sharing, just like other artists (Matt Bellamy, Elton John, Ed O'Brien, 50 Cent or whoever). She's part of this whole debate, as are the fans, the record labels, the ISPs, the politicians and the torrent tracker types.And while we're on artists, who said there had to be a party line? When it comes to file-sharing, artists run the whole gamut of opinion from 'it's evil!' to 'it made my career!'. That doesn't [...]
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