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Music Thread #2 For 9/24/09: Lily Allen Fails Today Like No Other

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Up until this post, I contained positive feelings for Lily Allen. Though not a fan, since I really only followed her after an impressive combination with Common , I thought she was sensible cool artist with somewhat of an informed, global perspective. Then I read this and realized how much of an idiot she is . File-sharing heroine Lily Allen has joined the anti-piracy lobby in its war against illegal downloading, claiming that it bankrupts the music industry. While trying to prove her point, however, she infringed on the rights of several webblogs and newspapers. On top of this, it turns out that she offers some illegal mixtapes on one of her websites. After we found out that Lily Allen copied an article from Techdirt without attribution or permission to prove why copyright infringement is wring, we called her a hypocrite. Even celebrity guru Perez Hilton agreed with this assessment, and it seems that Lily is more hypocrite than we could have ever imagined. In a reply to our criticis...