The Costanza

Lily Allen, who formerly believed music piracy was bad, has changed her mind stating she “doesn’t care” if someone burns her albums.

In September, Allen wrote a blog on Myspace critisising bands such as Radiohead and Pink Floyd for their view that file sharing is okay.

But now it appears, in a radio interview Allen has had a change of mind and heart and says “If someone comes up with a burnt copy of my CD and offers it to you for £4, I haven’t a problem with that as long as the person buying it places some kind of value on my music.”

Tory.

Lily Allen has critisised file sharers and some artists in her latest Myspace blog entry saying “music piracy is having a dangerous effect on British music”.

She says bands who sell out arenas such as Pink Floyd and Radiohead are not the ones feeling the effects of piracy but for new acts, music piracy and file sharing make it hard for new acts to emerge.

Allen says while old-school artists are driving Ferraris the new, emerging artists are still trying to pay off record company debts.

She recommends record companies get smart about new technology and make the internet more user friendly for kids to download music legally instead of having to steal parents credit cards or download music illegally.

Tory.

Image from Sharky_p2p on Flickr.com

Today’s blog is about the reinvention of the music industry. Music is not dying completely, maybe CD’s are dying but music will always live on, just in different forms.

I have two links to post today. But I guess I could do it in two different posts on two different days just to add to my content a little.

I am currently having some issues working out jargon from one link I’ve found. Using abbreviations makes things very hard. Terms like RIAA and DRM are abbreviations a lot of people would have to google repeditively to find out about.

However, this is a good piece about the transformation of the music industry.

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“Remember Jerry, it’s not a lie if you believe it” – George Costanza.

I have decided to start every blog with a quote from either Mr Costanza, a politician/about politics or a musician/about music. This is just my way of personalising my blog and maybe making the things I talk about a little more bearable.

What my blog will be about will be rather dry and although interesting, probably won’t be the most exciting thing everyone has ever read.
It turns out our choices are as I thought. Government, politics or the economy.

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The Costanza is my blog for school. The name of the blog and the ‘catchphrase’ are incorporating my favourite Seinfeld character (George Costanza) aswell as the general idea of what my blog will be about.
I’m told I have the mannerisms of Mr Costanza at times so adding that to my blog seemed important.
Our school blogs have to be on a certain topic chosen by our tutors. The topics are something along the lines of business, economics, politics etc but we’ve been told that we can fit any topic of our choice into that topic. Confused? Yea, so was I.

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