| Download the mp3: www.zshare.net Buy or download Dan Bull's debut album Safe from www.freshnut.co.uk Follow Dan on Twitter www.twitter.com Connect on Facebook at www.facebook.com MySpace: www.myspace.com For those asking how they can donate money - www.freshnut.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: An open letter to Lily Allen in song format, regarding her recent campaign against filesharing and her decision to quit music. Lyrics: Dear Lily Allen, Remember when you pretended, Lily, that you were truly independent, Lily? Faking like you made it all alone but you were legally with Regal, part of Parlophone - oh yes. So when you lectured me, I thought I'd fileshare my thoughts on your mp3, Lily. Now first I must sing your praises - I love your singing but I'll just say this: I saw on your MySpace pages saying filesharing's a new ice age, but the industry's a recent innovation - music's been alive, thriving since cavemen. Folk songs so long have had a place in communities that you should be amazed at it. Then one day came intellectual property, meaning if I think a thought, you can't copy me. And if honesty's the best policy, I'd say songs are better off without this monopoly. It'd blatantly be a major fail if they'd patented the major scale. And downloads don't equate to sales, so taking them away won't make me pay up - just procludes me from sending your tunes to my friends, so we all lose in the end. You lose ... |
