Lily Allen 'quits music' after abuse over file-sharing fight

Lily Allen has given up her fight against illegal file sharing and says she has quit the music business altogether after announcing on Twitter that "the abuse was getting too much". The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

This week, Allen launched a blog, "It's Not Alright", in which she slammed illegal downloading and threw her support behind plans by the British Government to disconnect music pirates from the internet.

Some of Britain's biggest musical stars - under the umbrella of the Featured Artists Coalition - had rejected the plan as being too draconian but Allen had the opposite view, saying file sharers were "cutting off income at the most crucial, cash-strapped point in [new artists'] careers".

However, she was soon mired in a copyright stoush of her own as a technology blog, Techdirt, accused her of reproducing parts of one of its articles on her blog without attribution.

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emily | 9:11 AM | Copyright Protection |
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