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Musicians To Meet At Illegal Downloading Summit In London

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  • by Jason Gregory
  • Wednesday, September 23, 2009
  • Photo by: Splash News
  • filed in: Indie
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Musicians at the centre of a disagreement over how to solve the problem of illegal file-sharing will meet at a summit in London on Thursday.

A row has arisen between the Featured Artists' Coalition (FAC), which includes stars of Radiohead and Blur, and a rival group led by Lily Allen.

The FAC is against government proposals to ban internet users who download music illegally.

Allen's lobby, meanwhile, which has won support from Matt Bellamy, Mark Ronson and Gary Barlow, wants tougher action against file-sharers.

She has started a blog to help "those artists that are still struggling to break through in the file sharing age".

According to the BBC, the FAC has invited all artists to the “urgent meeting to hammer out a unified position on this issue".
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  • Wouldn't be happening if we were all still listening to 8 tracks.

    ~ by MrGawain 9/23/2009

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  • Hmmmm, why are all those against filesharing rubbish? Do they make music for people to hear, or to make big piles of cash. No integrity Lily.

    ~ by Kitch22 9/23/2009

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  • artist need to make some kind of money for their hard effort. at the end of the day you want people to enjoy your music, but for that, they also need to earn some kind of a living. don't you think so?

    ~ by Miguel 9/24/2009

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    • haha I laugh at Miguels silly comment, they dont earn the normal wage for a normal working person, they make millions even with people downloading their music, theyre just greedy people who want more cash to bathe in. also I don't see how theyre going to get away with this seeing as it is illegal to look at someones downloading history without having a suspicion of illegal goings-on

      ~ by Sam 9/25/2009


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