James Delahunty
24 Sep 2009 19:50
Lily Allen appears to have decided to completely gut her music career because she apparently cannot make any money from recorded music anymore. The performer said she has no plans to tour or make a new album. "Just so you know, I have not renegotiated my record contract and have no plans to make another record," she said on their anti-file sharing blog.
"The days of me making money from recording music has been and gone as far as I'm concerned, so I don't (at this point) stand to profit from legislation." The move comes after Lily Allen found herself on the opposite side of artists in the UK such as Radiohead and Robbie Williams over proposed measures to tackle illegal file sharing that included disconnecting pirates from the Internet.
The brief controversy was entertaining though, not least because Lily Allen found herself accused of copyright infringement too. Torrentfreak called out Allen for 1:1 copying an article from Techdirt without attributing it to the site on her blog. She responded with, "I THINK ITS QUITE OVIOUS [sic] THAT I WASNT TRYING TO PASS OF THOSE WORDS AS MY OWN , HERE IS A LINK TO THE WEBSIITE I ACQUIRED THE PIECE FROM," seemingly misreading the accusation as plagiarism.
Torrentfreak then went on to point out that Allen has scanned a number of articles from newspapers and uploaded them too, and to top it off, found two mixtapes that she was offering for download on her own websites that were loaded with 19 unauthorized tracks.