Lily Allen quits music, closes blog

I was half-following this through posts on Torrentfreak.com and caught the end at theage.com under the heading Lily Allen 'quits music' after abuse over file-sharing fight.  Ms Allen seems to have incurred the wrath of the Internet gods over her outspoken anti-piracy posts on her blog, and taken her bat and ball, closed her blog (removing the evidence) and gone home.

I have posted my views on the piracy debate before so I'm not going to go into that again.  But I have to say that surely these talented musicians of the last couple of years can't be this ignorant to the online world around them?  What did you expect to happen?  Lily is either too into her music or has been duped into volunteering for the career suicide mission of biting the hands that feed.

As a Artist, you don't wade into the anti-piracy/digital distribution debate unless you have made your money, or are looking to get out.  AC/DC recently made news by not putting their music up on iTunes, and had their album hotly pirated.  But they have made their money, so can hold out a little longer.  Unlike Lily, who should be working with, and milking, the new distribution models of the new online music industry. For as much as they complain, the future is coming and piracy is going to be a part of it.

I hope the cheque Lily got, as spokeswoman, will cover a few lean years while we forget about the past week.

Jason
...if it aint Broken, quit, then get your publicist's to say you didn't mean it.