Most of you are probably aware of the recent fiasco over Lily Allen’s blog on file sharing (read it here http://ow.ly/psOJ) many artists including myself showed their support. She wrote the blog in reaction to the Featured Artist Coalitions statements that file sharing is fine and creates “a new generation of fans for us”.

Well her point was while that’s great for artists that have been around for years it’s no good for the younger generation of artists like myself who haven’t sold millions of records as 1. The industry will be terrified to take on new artists and 2. Their will be no money to promote new talent what so ever. It’s a big subject that I won’t get into here but it’s a subject I feel strongly about and I agree with her views so I got in touch with her on Twitter and showed her my support. She doesn’t deserve abuse for this as it is unfair that artists work their heart and sole into the music they create only to find it being shared for free without their permission, shouldn’t artists be entitled to make a living from their music?

The following day while trawling through my @replies on Twitter I was to discover Lily Allen had got in contact with me requesting sent her a direct message to discuss this issue further, but the irony is that Lily isn’t following me and she’s unaware you can’t receive a direct message from anyone you are not following, I attempted to message her on myspace guess what you have to be her friend to message her and she blocks all friend requests on myspace.

In the following days a meeting was held the results that people that continue to file share will receive 2 warning letters before they get cut off, to find out more please visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8274072.stm

I believe an answer to file sharing is Kerchoonz this site allows you to download free music while artists still get paid, their is alot more to this site than meets the eye so go and check it out.

I want to know what you think? Should artists make a living from the music they produce or should we quit complaining? Where do you get your music?

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