Lily Allen Is OK With Pirated CDs As Long As You Pay

Lily Allen has never been afraid to voice her opinions on all manner of subjects, some close to her heart. Earlier this year she started a blog about illegal filesharing and copyright infringement. But she walked away from the debate in September, deleting her blog as she went.

That doesn’t, however, mean that she has suddenly stopped caring about the subject. Although she does seem a little mixed up with her views on how her music is shared over the Internet and burned on to pirate CDs.

According to NME, in a recent interview on radio station Key 103, Allen claimed:

“If someone comes up with a burnt copy of my CD and offers it to you for £4 I haven’t a problem with that as long as the person buying it places some kind of value on my music.”

So, for Lily Allen at least, it isn’t about people stealing money from her when they share her music but turning her music from something with value into a devalued commodity. Which kind of makes sense in one way but not in others.

Is Allen really that much happier to see others making money from her hard work than to see her music being shared openly and freely? It’s a strange opinion to hold and at odds from what she was saying on her blog just a few months ago.

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