Let’s kick Lily Allen off the net
It’s all very amusing. Allen appears to have created Lily Allen’s Animal Farm, hastily rewriting the rules from “copyright good! Infringement bad!” to “Copyright good! Passing off other people’s work without attribution or payment better!”
Then again, you’re a bit daft if you’re expecting sense from an industry whose intellectual qualities peaked with Sir Mix-A-Lot’s cry of “I like big butts and I cannot lie!”
That’s an affectionate dig at Sir Mix-A-Lot, by the way. I think that line might be the greatest opening line in the history of popular music.
Update, 24 Sept: Oh dear. Techdirt has discovered Ms Allen distributing other people’s music from her own website.
Update again, 24 Sept: Oh dear. The blog appears to have been deleted now.
6 Responses to “Let’s kick Lily Allen off the net”
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Heather on September 23rd, 2009
Nonono, Gary, I think you will find that this is the greatest opening line of all time.
http://open.spotify.com/track/7BprpyAAqhHC4qPPPaF4QS
Gary on September 23rd, 2009
Spotify doesn’t appear to like that link on this Mac :(
Heather on September 23rd, 2009
http://bloodhoundgang.com/easylistening/bargainbinclassics/playerfiles/hfb016f-high.html
Gary on September 24th, 2009
Heh. They’re awful.
Tony Kiernan on September 23rd, 2009
Well, if we’re wheeling that old one out again…
Gary on September 24th, 2009
There’s something fantastically funny about “you’ve never been to Alton Towers”.