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# James Blunt Says No To Piracy, Yes To Lily Allen
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/james-blunt-says-no-to-piracy-yes-to-lily-allen/
- Published: 2009-09-21T10:12:26.000Z
- Updated: 2009-09-21T10:12:26.000Z
- Description: Our posting of Lily Allen's anti-piracy views sparked quite a debate in the comments section. Now singer songwriter James Blunt is also coming to Allen's defense with his own call. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/09/james-blunt-says-no-to-piracy-yes-to-lily-allen.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:03

Our posting ofLily Allen's [anti-piracy views](https://www.hypebot.com/lily-allen/) sparked quite a [debate](https://www.hypebot.com/lily-allen/) in the comments section. N

ow singer songwriter James Blunt is also coming to Allen's defense with his own call for British musicians to "galvanize over a serious crime".

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> "I want to put my hand up in support of Lily Allen. She’s asking British musicians to galvanize over a serious crime: the death of a great British industry — our music business.  
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> The world over, people are stealing music in its millions in the form of illegal file-sharing. It’s easy to do, and has become accepted by many, but people need to know that it is destroying people’s livelihoods and suffocating emerging British artists." **– James Blunt** in the [Times UK](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article6841788.ece?ref=hypebot.com)