Lily Allen launches anti-piracy blog

Lily Allen has set up a new blog page to collect coverage and comments relating to her recently-launched campaign against illegal filesharing.

The '22' singer recently attacked the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) for their perceived support of filesharers and spoke out against the practice.

Her comments were initially supported by fellow stars Frankmusik, Mika and Patrick Wolf, while other musicians have added their names to the discussion.

The newly set-up internet page includes input on the issue from James Blunt in a letter to The Times and personal messages from songwriters Guy Chambers and Natasha Khan, among others.

Chambers said: "I've heard arguments from a songwriter's perspective but I'm also very interested in hearing the artist's point of view as we should all work together on this issue. Music shouldn't be perceived to be free."

Khan commented: "I am actually in the middle of researching both the points you've mentioned in your email and the FAC website to get a grip on a matter I feel strongly, yet quite confused about.

"Regardless, I agree that file-sharing is a huge and complicated problem for emerging artists, myself included, and for the future of music."

The FAC recently issued its own new statement on the issue through its own website.