I posted last week that I heard Lily Allen was ditching music to do something else, acting maybe but it seems that the Not Fair singer has decided to champion anti-piracy legistlation. I tried to call 3 major record labels and ask them some simple questions about piracy, and I was basically told to f#ck off. In music and movies I spend thousands of pounds each year, and the one of the very indistries I pay decided I wasn’t worth answering. I put 1 of my questions to @LilyAllen via Twitter and it was ignored, how can an industry that ignored very well paying customers expect to get people like me onside ?

Lily Allen Has Quit Music

The Womanizer cover singer said on her blog “Its not alright”:

“Just so you know, I have not renegotiated my record contract and have no plans to make another record.
I do however remain a fan of new music, so this is not some selfish crusade.
The days of me making money from recording music has been and gone as far as I’m concerned, so I don’t stand to profit from legislation. Except future purchases of previously recorded material.
I finish up my dates in March and I’ll be ready to do something else. I’ve been on the road for four years and I’ve given my voice a real run for its money. I’m struggling, so I’m going to try something new.”

All well and good, but what about the questions that are not answered ?

If Youtube, MySpace and other services can operate for free with only support from Advertising, how much do they pay to the record industry per download, and would this SAME price be acceptable for ISPs to charge each time on their users downloads a song ? I would happily have a secondary bill from my ISP that billed me a few pence each time i downloaded a song.

My guess is the Music Industry, doesn’t want the few pence that MySpace and YouTube pay, they are greedy fuckers and want the £10+ per CD, I am a music lover, I promote music every day and encourage people to buy CDs and MP3, but their greed sometimes makes me wonder.

The question is, say there are 1,000,000 illegal downloaders, each downloads 10 songs per week in the UK,  so 10,000,000 songs, the recording industry get nothing, wouldn’t it be better to say to those downloaders, 10p per song you can convert your illegal downloads into legit MP3 copies. ?

10p x 10,000,000 = £1,000,000 per week extra income from NOTHING, but what the music industry want to do is get the 1,000,000 CD’s worth of music to pay £10 each for a CD, making £10,000,000 instead. If the music industry wants people onside they NEED to appreciate a jump from FREE to £10 isn’t going to happen, a jump from Free to 10p, and then raise is 5p after a year, 10p after 2 years, 20p after 3 years, and work up to 30p a track.

Give people the option to ‘taste the music’, I have bought Album’s before now, listened to them, and liked 2 songs, so they cost me £5 each, what the fuck is up with that ? Give me the opion of buying the Album Online, let me listen to the album for a week, then ask me which tracks I want to buy for £1.50 or the Album for £10, I could reduce my music collection by 70% and not even notice.

Another thing, I’m going put this in nice big letters…

I DON’T OWN A CD PLAYER, MY CAR DOESN’T HAVE A CD PLAYER, MY LAPTOP DOESN’T HAVE A CD PLAYER, MY MP3 PLAYER CERTAINLY DOESN’T HAVE A CD PLAYER, MY MOBILE PHONE, GUESS WHAT ? NO CD PLAYER….

So why are you insisting on flogging a dead horse ? Come into the 90s, provide your music on an CD card, give away free card readers they are 20p in china, a 256mb sd card is about 50p, so for 70p you can sell something that is useful to me and modern users.

Anyway before my blood pressure goes thru the roof back to calming things like Lily herself not her record industry funded ranting, The 24-year-old singer is concentrating on her London theatre production called ‘Reasons to be Pretty’, which follows a group of working-class people who are bored with their lives and try to change them. Lily said “The play is about themes close to my heart, about the really damaging cult of beauty among young girls.”.

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