Actually, it's less 1-0 and more of a cricket score – the kind of merciless pasting only seen in schoolboy football nowadays. But anyway.
The background: Lily Allen spoke out against music piracy, then set up a blog to vent her own views and those of fellow artists. Then she got accused of plagiarism, cutting and posting a story from Techdirt without proper attribution. Then she got accused of hypocrisy, having stuck a couple of MP3 mixtapes of other people's tunes on her site early in her career. Then she got hundreds of abusive comments, and now she's shut the blog down.
That's the summary. And it's actually made me angry. Proper ear-steaming anger. Anger at the mob mentality that's squashed a site that could have fostered a constructive debate around this whole thorny issue of file-sharing.
I did have a rant about it on Music Ally's blog, but to avoid clogging that up – and because these are my personal views – I've come back to it here.
