So earlier this week Lily Allen was hailed for her heroic crusade to save the music industry well, it seems she has been flouting her own very public views on distribution of copyrighted material by circulating a mixtape featuring artists' work without their permission.
The Lily Allen mixtapes – two 50-min mixes use snippets of artists including Jay-Z, Beats International and The Kinks – were previously available on Lily's blog, although they seem to have mysteriously disappeared recently.
Lily has responded by saying: "I made those mixtapes five years ago. I didn't have a knowledge of the workings of the music industry back then. Anyway the snippets of songs you hear on those mixtapes are about 30 seconds to one minute in length, in traditional mixtape style."
Hmm – as far as I know, permission is still needed before you distribute (unless It my own mixtape).The star has been slated across the web for her seeming double-standards, in the light of her suggestion that illegal file-sharers should have their bandwitdths squeezed.
But it now seems that Lily's own anti-filesharing blog, has been closed down.
Is that the sound of furious backpeddalling we hear?
What do you think?
Is filesharing killing music?
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