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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.”

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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.

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Lady Gaga’s awful song Poker Face has just become the most downloaded song in the UK ever.
This is not an opinion blog and this will not be an opinion piece. I don’t like Lady Gaga but a lot of people do, obviously. Apparantly, this song, which I do not like has had 779,000 downloads in the past year.

If you’re interested, Kings of Leon also rate highly, with Sex On Fire being second most downloaded song in the UK ever. So I don’t doubt the Brits’ music taste because Kings of Leon rate very highly in my books aswell.

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Popular musicians are disagreeing with a government plan to cut off the internet of music downloaders.
Artists from bands like Radiohead, Pink Floyd and Blur say if the plan goes through it will criminalise a whole generation of their fans.
A new group has been set up to represent the interests of these artists and artists like them. The Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) says file sharing encourages people to buy concert tickets and merchandise, despite record sales being down because of it.

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“We look for interactive media…we need a greater experience otherwise why not just listen to their music online?”
Live shows drive sales of recorded music in the Internet Age and provide opportunities to cash in by selling fans videos of performances on flash drives or DVDs as they leave venues.”

Bands need to get used to the fact that if selling CDs is their only income, they will be living on $1 a day if they’re lucky. I know in America that can buy you a cheeseburger but between a whole band, one cheeseburger a day is not likely to end well.

It all comes back to performing live. This article talks about artists creating better experiences around music aswell as being able to, as a fan, interact with artists in different ways.

Tory.