News > Lily Allen drops anti-filesharing website
Published: 24/09/2009 | Categories: CDs and Music
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A website that pop star Lily Allen set up to advocate the banning of illegal music downloaders from using the internet has been shut down.
The singer ditched the blog, called It's Not Alright, after abuse was directed at it from members of the TechDirt website, who claimed she had infringed copyright laws early on in her career by distributing mixtapes of other people's music.
Lily became embroiled in the dispute after saying that filesharing is having a "dangerous effect" on the music industry for younger artists trying to break into the mainstream.
She posted on her Twitter account: "I'm proud of the fact that I've been involved with this debate but I'm passing the baton on to other artists. I've shut down the blog, the abuse was getting too much."
Members of Radiohead and Pink Floyd recently set up the Features Artists Coalition to call on the government to drop plans to punish music filesharers by giving internet service providers the power to cut off their access.
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