{"id":183,"date":"2009-09-15T13:26:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T13:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=183"},"modified":"2009-09-15T13:26:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T13:26:52","slug":"lily-allen-takes-a-poke-at-the-floyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2009\/09\/lily-allen-takes-a-poke-at-the-floyd\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily Allen takes a poke at the Floyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London&#8217;s <strong>Metro<\/strong> newspaper reports 24-year-old singer\/songwriter <strong>Lily Allen<\/strong> has spoken out against file sharing.<\/p>\n<p>Her comments, posted on her MySpace page, are in response to a recent Times story quoting Pink Floyd drummer <strong>Nick Mason<\/strong> suggesting prosecuting those who illegally share music files is misguided and shortsighted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think music piracy is having a dangerous effect on British music, but some really rich and successful artists like Nick Mason from Pink Floyd and <strong>Ed O&#8217;Brien <\/strong>from Radiohead don&#8217;t seem to think so,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These guys from huge bands said file-sharing music is fine. It probably is fine for them. They do sell-out arena tours and have the biggest Ferrari collections in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For new talent though, file-sharing is a disaster as it&#8217;s making it harder and harder for new acts to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t start out in music with the Ferraris. Instead you get a huge debt from your record company, which you spend years working your arse off to repay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Ferrari reference would seem to be a jab at Mason&#8217;s impressive auto collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London&#8217;s Metro newspaper reports 24-year-old singer\/songwriter Lily Allen has spoken out against file sharing. Her comments, posted on her MySpace page, are in response to a recent Times story quoting Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason suggesting prosecuting those who illegally share music files is misguided and shortsighted. &#8220;I think music piracy is having a dangerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-nick-mason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}