Pop star Lily Allen got into an online spat with her fans in the UK when she came out in favor of a government proposal to stop illegal downloading: if you get caught downloading copyrighted material three times, you lose your Internet access. Yep, and according to Fox,
three strikes might be coming soon to a computer near you!
Draconian?
Dan Bull thought so and was inspired to write "
Dear Lily," which has been going viral.
Is his song a manifesto of the Cyber Generation?
Rafer Guzman, entertainment writer for Newsday, says, if so that's a sad commentary on what the youth of today care about: the entertainment industry. And besides, big concept albums take big money...you'll never produce an album like Bowie's
Ziggy Stardust from your home computer.
You can download
Dear Lily here and tell us what you think. Manifesto of a movement? Or misguided trend?
Or to download Dan Bull's newest album
Safe click
here.