A Brilliant Open Letter Song On Piracy To Lily Allen
Written by enigmax on September 26, 2009This week Lily Allen’s views on file-sharing have been the hot topic. While some agree with her calls to ’save’ the industry from a fate worse than death, others did not subscribe to the doomsday scenario. One of those is UK musician Dan Bull who has written a brilliant song-come-open letter to Miss Allen. We hope you enjoy it.
Say what you like about Lily Allen. Agree with her. Disagree with her if you like. Whatever the position, it’s difficult to take it away from her – she has done more in the last week to raise the online debate over illicit file-sharing than any other artist in recent months.
Lily has managed to capture the imaginations of both sides – people are talking about this issue and that is always a good thing.
Debate, discussion and hopefully understanding will bring this file-sharing ‘war’ to an end one day but in the meantime let’s not forget what this is ultimately all about – the music. We all love it and that’s why you’ll love this too;
“After Lily’s hectic week I’ve made a pro-filesharing song and video calling her up on a few of the claims she’s made,” UK musician Dan Bull explains to TorrentFreak.
“I’ve also tried to outline some of the main moral arguments for filesharing in the lyrics. Hope you enjoy, and hope the readers do too.”
The song is brilliant in my opinion, and, ironically I suppose, i’d like to give Dan some money for his work, he deserves it. Let’s hope this song gets to Internet #1 this weekend and he reaps the benefit. Now if I can just get the chorus out of my head…..
…or if you prefer, download the MP3 here.
Dan’s MySpace page can be found here and his album ‘Safe’ is available from FreshNut but can also be downloaded digitally from iTunes, Amazon and Napster.
You can grab it free of charge here or using Mininova.
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219 Responses
Ace :D
Holly crap, that was a good tune!
Actually a good song not counting the funny lyrics LoL
ROFL…. That was so freakin’ awesome!
I still don’t know who this person is.
lol kicking ass :D
that’s great Dann this way we need to go!
good song
That was awesome! Dan Bull, you rock!
Dude if you ever read this, please consider writing a replacement song for The Pirate Bay (that “We’re all the pirate bay” song from some months back had the right idea but at the end of the day it sucked)
Did she also get the link to this track ?
I guess one of the following will happen:
1. She’s kicked of the internet for pirating and can’t respond.
2. She will make a fool of herself again.
3. Or say something like “See, I told you so, they are abusing me even after i quit.. those damn PIRATES”…
4. Will try to sue everyone involved meaning everyone who heard or helped create and/or spread the song.
5. Most likely, no reaction at all and in a month or 2 she will be back in the music business as being a hypocrite goes to a new level.
WOW! That was good!
The song is actually nice.
@9
We all know number 5 will happen.
Bravo!
Good song, great message… unfortunately it may be a bit too intelligent for silly Lily – the ninny, with a brain not worth a penny.
absolutely superb!! many congrats, what a shame it will fall on the deaf ears of her and other artists that belong to the big labels, as well as the music labels etc themselves.
DAMN!!!, songs awesome!! loved it, good work man realll good work :D
Thumb up, simply brilliant!
THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!!
WELL DONE!!!
As a regular (daily) reader of this site, and as a long-time computer user, I became bored of the whole ‘debate’ a long time ago and that’s why I do not post regularly anymore… but I HAD to say congratulations to Dan Bull for this very entertaining song!
Also, big thanks to TF for bringing this article (and many others) to my attention, and thanks to the people who can be arsed to post (pro and anti alike… after all, it would get pretty boring around here if everyone held the same point of view). Your passion for the subject entertains and informs me on a daily basis ;)
Now, if only I could get that song out of my head…
“Dear Lily, dum-de-do-da…”
Haha that’s awesome, good work. Even the accompanying video was good (was wondering prior to watching where i might find the lyrics).
Awesome song. Love it!
Well done!
The music isn’t really my style, but the lyrics are brilliant and I like how he takes the piss out of her terrible, terrible faked accent.
Nice one, Dan, we need more artists like you. I will be buying your CD.
Damn the song is stuck in my head now LoL
Say what I want about Lily Allen?
Okay. What I want to say about Lily Allen is that I have no fucking clue who she is, other than some moron who doesn’t understand even the most basic concepts of copyright and is apparently a musician of some sort — possibly only in the UK.
@22 How do you think I feel? I heard it about 6 hours ago and it still hasn’t stopped xD
This is great, wud luv 2 c it at number wun
the link for buying the album is broken from The Netherlands :-(
Where can i buy just this song.
I would love to see it get enough sales to see it in the charts and hear it on Radio 1 or MTV.
That would really get the word out there and I am sure that even Silly Lily would get it then.
Yours sincerely,
Joe Public
Wow, I don’t have any clue what this guy’s music generally sounds like, but I’m definitely going to head to CDBaby or Amazon this weekend and *PAY* for a DRM-free digital copy of his album.
Very clever. Much respect.
That song’s the closest thing to perfect, as far as songs that make a statement, go, that I’ve seen for as long as I can remember.
Wow!
That’s a really catchy tune.
Way to go, Dan.
this song is like a drug, now i have heard it its in my head and i car’nt get it out i know i will have to buy this song if it is possible to buy becouse i will need another fix when this wares off, AMAZING.
Please everyone buy this song. Please also try to buy the song from somewhere it will count towards chartsales. This just being in the top 40 will mean they have to play it on teh radio at least once.
This song is just amazing. Cudos.
Thanks Dan, I enjoyed it alot.
Loved it, really well done!
…bet she wont watch it though.
There’s another one of Dan’s songs here, this time about video games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuqsxnHlhTc
This man has talent.
torrent anywhere?
Brilliant ideas like these exemplify why I love the ‘net. Thank you very much, Dan.
Try http://www.scenesearch.to the best torrent und rapidshare links search engine
This is one of the most creative songs I have heard in a long ass time. This guy has real talent and just made another fan :) now to make everybody I know listen to this :)
I really hope she hears this lol show her what the people she wants to “protect” think.
Try http://www.scenesearch.to a good search engine for torrent and rapidshares links
Ref: @31 – doodles
What he said! :D
stop giving that stupid slapper the publicity she is clearly craving by putting out her ridiculous, uneducated rants.
you fell for it all big time torrentfreak.
Awesome work Dan :) Downloading and sharing your work as i type :)
Love the song. The other one about games is really cool too.
However I hate rap, this song is awesome :D
Awesome. Bought the CD.
Genius !
Is the song hosted anywhere else?
zshare doesn’t let me download anything :(
i gotta go w/ #3…that was AWESOME!!
Is it just me, or is the view counter stuck on 305 on YouTube? With 380+ ratings and 130+ comments?
This viewcount capping by Youtube is becoming quite transparent, only exposing what videos they want to keep out of the front page.
Proves Google is slipping from the ‘Don’t be Evil’ slogan, I guess, or have given moderation powers to the music industry.
awesome :) Great song!!
Number 50 here again. I did the google on the issue.
Seems to be the most commonly reported Youtube bug: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=17f0843c4bab76e8&hl=en
To summarize, their astroturfing filtering sucks. Or they handpick videos to block. Who knows.
Bloody marvelous.
Nice!!!
Although i would usually find rap not to interesting (it all sounds the same) this song sounds alright and although simple video its just exactly fits the song. Nice touch with that accent.
Nice work on song/video combination and that without a multi-billion industry.
It must actually have been a lot of work after all was done to time the text in the video correctly to follow the music (it isn’t as easy as it looks).
@50 – Heard of caching? lOl
Lets get it to number one….
that last line is a bit corny, but a brilliant song.
i want to buy this song :))
Absolutely brillant! well done m8
Brilliant! I’ll buy this song right away!
Everybody’s doin’ a brand new sharing now
(C’mon baby do the loco-sharing)
I know you’ll get to like it
If you give it a chance now
(C’mon baby do the loco-sharing)
My little baby sister can do it with ease
It’s easier than learning your a b c’s
So come on, come on,
Do the loco-sharing with me
nice tune : ) u make me happy
but srsly, i dl’ed the fear and then bought it…. and now i regret it… silly lilly
Absolutely brilliant!
here’s another brilliant song called “we love the pirates” penned in the “roaring 60’s” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeI2cl3Sr7c
This song is in my head, and i cant take it away. I love this guy. This guy should be the head of RIAA and maybe people will buy there music. These type of music is what people want to buy.
Just went and looked and the albums on mininova too! Great song Dan
“Dear Lilly, why you’re beeing this silly?”
“Because I want”
That would be the perfect answer!
In any case.. I would buy the song if I had money … in the mean time.. I’ll just listen to it..
Jesus. I saw the ‘a song about lily’ and was prepared for the worst song ever.
He managed to make this song both catchy and intelligent…damn.
I personally think it’s worth paying 1$ to support.
Awesome, brilliant love it!
It was a good song i guess but seriously the tune was way too repetitive –
like some other people said, it will be stuck in your head for hours. Did he take an instrumental of one of her tracks?
that would explain the annoying tune :D Damn Pop Music
im afraid i cant buy this music as its being distributed by that pirate person Dan Bull on the file sharing sites for free, so it must be a pirate copy :)
it not on the opproved play lists and so i dont know if i like it enough to buy it….
good old British song style there Dan, can you do a few anti mandy (mandelson), and Pro (UK)Pirate party featured songs too for popular airplay and Elreg news mentions… perhaps.
haha that’s great…… Think it’ll get the message through? lol
He’s got my donation.
dan do you do any Creative Commons licenced content we can play around with and remix perhaps ?
then you and we could start putting some new Creative Commons content on the likes of the new Pirate Party Canada Creative Commons BitTorrent Tracker
http://www.pirateparty.ca/captain
http://www.pirateparty.ca/
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-canada-starts-a-bittorrent-tracker-090925/
perhaps the UK PP can also do some CC and mandy can cry like a baby….
Thank You, you’ve managed to make me want to bash my head into a wall. I can’t get this song out of my head now
Awesome job though, seriously
:D
Maybe Lily Allen is right, maybe file-sharing unchecked will destroy the record industry. Perhaps some ‘artists’ will struggle to survive without a the weight of a multi-billion dollar, trans-national company behind them. Without a million dollar expenditure of revenue on advertising and marketing perhaps music will become less about business models, market penetration, brand awareness and target demographic. Maybe without the support the global entertainment media giants selling music will become about more about whether your tunes are any good.
Im iffy on the tune…I cant decide if I like it or not. Though, the lyrics are reasonable and logical. Stop worrying about pirates, the people that want your music will buy it, go to the shows, or spread it.
Also, that is a cool effect of how he got the typing in synce with the song..awesome
Hope this doesn’t encourage ReasonedMind to make his own song defending copyright. But on second thought, nah, he can’t… he doesn’t know ANYTHING about music…
very cool indeed :)
i thought this site was about giving information and news on filesharing, not on trying to change someones point of view. Last time the stuff posted here looks more and more like propaganda. I hope this changes soon.
This guy really has talent. I love this song.
** /me listening to this song by turning “repeat on” **
Any place where we can vote for this song????
hmm “not on trying to change someones point of view….”
so you read a story, and change your mind based on its given information, how is that not a news
related item….
click the “About” link above.
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What?
TorrentFreak is a weblog dedicated to bringing the latest news about BitTorrent and everything that is closely related to this popular filesharing protocol.
We are not a news aggregator,
but focus on unique and fresh stories.
TorrentFreak is where news and filesharing collide.
We try to be the source of all the latest breaking news in the p2p world.
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WHO’S LILY ALLEN !!
The tune is actually ‘22′ by Lily Allen which Dan Bull has recorded a new vocal for.
I love it :D
Nice song Dan! Can we have one for Mandy as well, get that spread about and distributed HEAVILY :-)
MY LAST NAME IS BULL!
@ by MultiCast-DHT Tunnels
Only the title should say enough already. The fact that TF states this song as brilliant gives us there opinion, and thats not what news or information is about. If i want someones point of view about something ill ask for it…
wow now this is something thats actually worth paying for :D
gr8 song
hahahahai love it
well the concept is certainly interesting, but what’s still the sad part’s that most “musicians” buy or get the track and add new vocals and that’s a song, and the composers and such get all discreditted. i’ll ahve to say its a nice conept and the lyrics are indeed killer, but I think there’s much more to musi than a repetitive layer of instruments (notice how its almost always the same rhythm?) and the musicians don’t have jobs anymore except for live events on which they can no longer depend on their allmighty electronic producers. In that case the people who don’t know anything about music (many don’t from a technical or study standpoint) regard the group as superior because of the live musicians playing there. Then buy all the dull-sounding instrumental tracks with vocals on them and the artist makes more money. Also, notice how the comercial cds cost much more than those cds from other independent artists who probably put musicians at work. So this is why iin principle its so easy to make a song, you just go to some site like:
http://www.shadowville.com
and buy the lisences to the track you liked! not even the track, but excuse me, the “lisences” for 500-1000 uses, or more than 1000 uses ETC . then you plug a microphone into you computer (a descent one) or go to a recording studio and that’s it! now get out on the streets and pretend that you are the master of music who knows how to write and read it, who knows by heart the stem positions of the notes, ETC . and try to sell. Sell like mad! if you can’t sell then maybe a record label can help you, and if you’re too good of a musician then you’ll probably hit up the big labels, who will be more than happy to use you for their own comercial gain. True musicians, in a nutshell, don’t do this kind of crazy, mediocre stuff.
This is awesome.. is there anywhere we can donate to this guy for this song or anything?
@90 aka …
This is a web blog, as such personal views of the journalists and comments from the public are welcomed, not frownd upon.
Perhaps something along the lines of the BBC news website would be more to your taste.
Awwww sheet, he used the words Metallica, stole a beat and advocated filesharing.
He’s gonna be subpeenads and in jail in 3 dayz.
Youtubes already done em on in, aright.
A true criminal all around. Scum, many will call him!
Wurse than a childrins molestah these downloeders. Yurrr.
That was so freakin’ awesome. Nicely done Dan. I bow in front of you. :)
Great song. I thought it was an original melody at first till I found it was Lily’s own music for “22″ with new lyrics. Still very catchy.
Since the music would be copyrighted, I imagine the youtube video will disappear at some point soon.
As #87 points out, the tune is from Lily Allen >It’s Not Me, It’s You >22
He does admit that its her “beat” in the song.
Awesome parody Dan, It was truly brilliant wakening and listening this morning
Keep up the good work!
p.s. wonder if she will have the balls to do some work and hit back with a reply video :P
I think you can send a message to him through his MySpace page to get a donation link or depending on the value you can buy his new album.
Hope this makes it into mainstream news as well, let the public know how the “little guys\gals” feel
;-)
@90
And if we want -your- point of view, we’ll ask for it.
Email this to all the greedy record companies, hopefully Lily will see this video and realise what a monumental retard she is.
Wow… 100 REPLIES!!! This is awesome!
Yeah.. I’m still listening to that sticky song.
Oh #97: Many people may not have noticed it.. but.. he says it.
@90: No one told you to come.. if you don’t like it.. leave silently and I may estimate you more than if you say what you said.
@89
My middle name is Alex!
Totally Genius!!! Not only were they great lyrics, the fact it took only the time of this week or so to do is just sheer amazing.
Hope is album is of the same quality.
Great song.. Lily Allen got anal creamed..
he needs a donate link on his myspace page
great that you informed us with this TORRENTFREAK!
YOUR THE BEST
Great song man ;)
Just at the right time, thanks!
Fucking great, just lovely thanks a bunch!
No really thanks now i have to go around for god knows how long with this song in my head.
Damn you! I just typed out the lyrics in this chat box just now..
He made this song in a week??? That’s bloody fantastic!
I don’t think people get is that the irony is that he made a good song by changing hers. It’s proof of what filesharing is about.
cool song bro ;)
I don’t know who Dan Bull is, but that song was pretty damn good. LOL at about 1:45 in the song. I can’t understand what he is saying ’cause he is talking so fast, but I hear him yell out “F— You!, then says something about Napster and Metallica. lol
Oh where oh where are neo & his pal RM?
Has the whole Lily Allen show turned out to be yet another huge public relations debacle for FAC, MPAA/RIAA et al.??
Good show Dan!!
Dear Lilly, you got pwned.
what a stupid song
Talented!
OK I know this dont meet with current views, but if we want to listen to new music instead of the beatles reemastered, then bands need to earn money. equipment, rehersal rooms advertising etc costs.
So this lili alen is an arse but she has a point. if we want amatur music, then thats what we get record companys wont sign or promote bands if there is no money in it
I konw it dont sound good but there is no free lunch and I like music enough to want it to be good not just free
TUUUUUUUNE! :D .. fucking great song!
Lily Allen is a dumb industry bitch who doesnt know a clue about reality, fuck her!
that song is brilliant
im going to be humming it for hours!!!!
You can send him a donation here:
http://www.freshnut.co.uk/index.php?p=shop
Found this link from another link on his myspace.
One word…
Beautiful
#121 by Mal
You’ve got it all wrong. Good music is created by people who love music and not by people who get paid for making music. What does that mean exactly? People discover their talent for music in their teenage years: They buy their own equipment, they pay for their rehearsal rooms and they advertise their music by giving away demo-tapes or mp3’s. If their music is any good they will soon start touring making gigs and earn money. It’s NOT the other way around: People get paid for equipment, studios, villas and luxury cars, and then maybe release a 40-minute CD for 30 bucks that SUCKS!
@121 Mal
“OK I know this dont meet with current views, but if we want to listen to new music instead of the beatles reemastered, then bands need to earn money. equipment, rehersal rooms advertising etc costs.
So this lili alen is an arse but she has a point. if we want amatur music, then thats what we get record companys wont sign or promote bands if there is no money in it
I konw it dont sound good but there is no free lunch and I like music enough to want it to be good not just free”
Since when did record company = good music?
What you call amateur music is usually the kind of music people really want to hear, not all that factory produced pop crap promoted by the large record companies and the media.
Dan Bull is a perfect example of how a so called “amateur” musician can be extremely talented and produce something people like. I say fuck the record companies, who really needs them in the age of the internets anyway?
Absolutely superb!
Great message and hits the nail right on the head, Dan Bull, you’re a genius!
Yeah, absolutely perfect. Now you are even more on the right track here. Ridicule the artists – that will make them more positive to your ideas right? At least show them your right face – as immature nerds.
Hahaha.. 10 times better than anything Lily Allen could come up with. Great tune. I’m going to look for ways to donate some cash to this guy. He deserves some. I think we all should give a little too, support people like this.
Indeed a worthy cause! Dan, you’ve got £10 from me! That track just made my week! Also like the gamer track
Absolutely brilliant!!
11 thumbs up.
freaking awesome!!!!
Well, I found a way to get the first song out of my head… I just listened to his second song :)
Damn… I played a lot of those games myself…
Keep up the good work Dan!
Thanx enigmax.
Ohoy Maties, 3rd Reich Troll @129 o’clock! Set sails for infinite ramming speed!
Yes let’s indeed ridicule and piss off more of those moneygrabbing assholes. On a good day they would follow Lilly’s example and get the hell out of Dodge so there will more awareness of independant artists like Dan Bull.
Hey Keyser Wilhelm, instead of whining around here, don’t you have a HMV shop or something to go to, so you can get down on all four and take a load in the face from the record industry.
I fell asleep with this song playing from my iPod, it’s great :)
Hey, all you interneters.
Dan is distributed by MGM Distribution – part of the old guard.
Thanks for your contributions / donations helping to keep the industry alive.
That’s a different Dan Bull. Twit
Fuck yes! This song is brilliant, nice work Dan =]
I don’t know who Lilly Allen is and honestly don’t care, but this reply song is good. Also forget buying, donations are the proper tool to show appreciation, when you can’t go to live shows.
I don’t live in UK or USA or any place where they pretend to criminalize file sharing, but i fully support your struggle and condemn those who want to impose their egoism with terror.
This war will not end until file sharing is decriminalized. Its their profits or our freedom; the answer is clear.
@121
‘OK I know this dont meet with current views, but if we want to listen to new music instead of the beatles reemastered, then bands need to earn money. equipment, rehersal rooms advertising etc costs.’
Nope, they don’t. Not in your sense of meaning. Think about it, it’s not what you mean after all. Everyone need to earn more money then the expenses after all.
What you mean is that the band have a right to get all invested money back, and then some.
Sorry but that is a choice and a risk you take, investing in your self. Still don’t give you the right to get every invested penny back.
I wanted to d/l an mp3 copy of @Generation Gaming’ and I found it here…
http://www.last.fm/music/Dan+Bull
Keep an eye on this guy, cos’ with all this publicity, he might get the recognition and airplay he deserves!
lily is sockin dust now ;P
Brilliant!
I donated 5 dolars via PayPal, easy and fast and yes he deserves for PWONING LILY ALLEN and writing a brilliant song about file sharing and more than that, is the coolest song.
Great song and great response!
#139 Anonymous
“This war will not end until file sharing is decriminalized. Its their profits or our freedom.”
You’re totally right, it’s a goddam’ war. But we need boots on the ground.
To all of you out there: Do something! Vote for the Pirate Party in your country! In Germany today!!!
To TorrentFreak,
Aren’t you going to write something about Demonoid.com’s changed status?
I’m out of words. Just great!
She hasn’t a clue. Listen to talk about any issue. Be it “climate change”, copyright or the bnp. This idea that stealing music from the big companies is alright very socialist.
More of his songs should follow this style. I find it more enjoyable than his other works.
silly bitch
COME ON LADS LETS GET THIS IN THE CHARTS! LMAO
lily allen. the coke head? she needs the cd’s for snorting lines.
Guys, dont send money to any of the links, they are linking to a different Dan Bull..
Yesssssss,
Windows Live Mail FTW XD Not FAILGmail lol
Oh, Lilly :(
A well written song and good work. I like this guy, his sound, and his way of expressing it.
This is the only cool thing i’ve done since.. well…EVER
Good job.
great song dan bull , fuck lily allen
AWESOME VID!! ha ha… im not up to date with the hole lily allen discussion but Im sure as hell going to download her newest album and if i can find out how to donate a dlr to this dude and her “hey lily” song, ill be absolutly glad to.
excellent stuff, well put
lilly: FUCK YOU VERY VERY VERY MUCH
To quote South Park’s episode about song downloading (cut for brevity) “Maybe our song would have gotten downloaded for free, but if they were good songs then people still would have bought tickets! From now on, MOOP isn’t about money. MOOP is about music! Who’s with us?! (Other A-list artists) …We’re just about the money.
The episode aired in 2003. No one seems to get it.
Oh yes… varry nice!
Totally epic! Way to go Dan!
BIG UP TO DAN!
I take it our mission is to spam the shit out of this incredible tune?
I so hope that Lilly would craft a lyrical response to Dan Bull. Not that I agree with her, but hey it’ll stir up the hornet’s nest and draw attention from the oldschool medias
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“great song dan bull , fuck lily allen”
+1
Dan Bull is spot on & my new hero.
GREAT SONG!
@168 Sep 27, 2009 at 15:44 by Encore666
Would be intresting to see…or hear the conversation turn into song.But Silly Lily has the backing of the Corparation and it probably would turn into a onesided message when they start playing it in the music media.If she responds,it should be kept only on the internets,musician to musician.That would keep it intresting.
Damn,thats one catchy tune.Love the lyrics:)
@172
I dunno, the internet is pretty powerful, and if viral’d the right way, it could get as much exposure as anything Lily Allen has to say. After all, the media love a bit of drama.
Dan Bull– You’re THE MAN!! ROCK ON, my friend. Very nice song.
Wow! it just made my day! :-D Brilliant lyrics, brilliant music and damn so funny! Thumbs up for this guy!
Haha, that made me smile that. I’m already a fan of Dan’s from his “Generation Gaming” song. Bought his album Safe, think he’s working on a new one – maybe this song will be on it.
Wow, you got that right. major hot topic indeed what are we to do???
RT
http://www.total-privacy.net.tc
I normally hate rap
but this is the one exeption!
brilliant song!
Well done dan!!!!!
cool song,very catch!looll
Absolute gold this music video.
Marko fron Finland
how is it possible something could be so amazing?
whoever wrote that song is a genius :D
Spread this all over the net! And lets get this to number in the charts!
Here’s another song bout the pirate radios – like the one half-way up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8q8×5sBrxg
i think this beats teh 1 that was released in the charts lol
This song is FANTASTIC!! Its a great way to finally get things out to the non-internet population.
I would LOVE to see this song hit the radios and TV!!
^^ I’m gonna go buy it!
Priceless! Really Greate!
Great!!! Loving it :D
Awesome song, well done Dan.
It made my day…thanks.
Good stuff, lemme chime in on wanting Dan Bull to re-do the TPB song. That ‘We Are The Pirate Bay’ song sucked so hard I blame it for how the trial turned out.
That was brilliant!! And I completely AGREE with Mr. Bull. ;)
Hey Dan, you should release this.
Very catchy, great message. I bet if you release this, “pirates” would actually go out and buy this in protest, knowing that the more sales generated the more airtime this would get for “our” cause. Just think, if we could get this to number 1……
It may have had a good message. But that song sucked.
Dear Lily Allen,
Remember when you pretended, Lily, that you were truly independent, Lily? Faking like you made it all alone but you were legally with Regal, part of Parlophone – oh yes. So when you lectured me, I thought I’d fileshare my thoughts on your mp3, Lily.
Now first I must sing your praises – I love your singing but I’ll just say this: I saw on your MySpace pages saying filesharing’s a new ice age, but the industry’s a recent innovation – music’s been alive, thriving since cavemen. Folk songs so long have had a place in communities that you should be amazed at it. Then one day came intellectual property, meaning if I think a thought, you can’t copy me. And if honesty’s the best policy, I’d say songs are better off without this monopoly. It’d blatantly be a major fail if they’d patented the major scale. And downloads don’t equate to sales, so taking them away won’t make me pay up – just procludes me from sending your tunes to my friends, so we all lose in the end. You lose potential fans and we lose respect for the fact that you’re desperate for cash. But what do you expect from the lass who’s collecting a fat bank cheque from the man, while her fans are collecting the glasses for minimum wage they’ll spend on her tracks?
Now please don’t be offended, Lily; I think your new CD’s splendid, Lily. Everybody’s at It and it’s Not Fair, I Could Say, The Fear was Him but He wasn’t There so let’s go Back to the Start, before 22 – all music’s in the public domain, so F*ck You.
It’s never the amateurs that’s reckon it’s damaging us, it’s the major labels saying it’s fatal; like when Napster had to pack up, wrecked by Metallica. The table’s turned now – the labels churn out a new Jezebelinternetelevangelist – and she’s fit – with a manuscript that was actually written by Mr. Michael Masnick. Can you get the irony? And by the by, Lily, I like this beat – I hope you don’t mind me thieving, ’cause even doing a cover song’s decried as stealing. But it’s alright, still, for you to plagiarise, and preach it – Don’t you believe it’s maybe time to rethink, Lily?
Put music back in the hands of the people; make the majors and amateurs equal. If anything labels strangle the freedom you claim they’re saving by banning this evil. That’s the actual reason, you see; and please don’t compare sharing to stealing – I’ve not took anything off you, I’m just spreading love for what you do. Downloaded your songs for free, then I bought my mom your CD. She likes it too, she keeps telling me, all because I pirated an mp3. Now I’ve got Matt Bellamy belling me, telling me I’m not a fan, I’m the enemy. That’s amusing, I’ve paid enough to see Muse in my time I could buy them a museum. Did you see them on that programme miming? Yeah, the pirates are killing live gigs. Maybe we should have a ban CDs appeal – then people would pay to see bands for real. Dear Lily, why are you being this silly?
Yours sincerely,
Dan Bull
P.S. – And I don’t mean any offence or anything, Lily. I just don’t think the issue’s as clear cut as you’re making out. And I know you’re going to carry on making music really. But when you’re between the devil and the deep blue sea, you need to stop worrying about pirates, and adjust your sails.
Great shit i hope she lesions to the song!!!!!!!
@193
Your right, with 5-6 million “pirates” in the UK, a co-ordinated protest with each pirate buying just 1 copy each all on the same week, would rocket the tune to number 1. Giving the biggest fuck you to the music business ever!!!
So I pointed out that all the BS about ‘freedom’ I see here is just rationalizing the fact that you find it easy to steal my work (I’m a musician), and my post was *censored*!
So this is just a propaganda site, plain and simple.
I pointed out that if I were able to steal *your* work easily without much chance of getting caught, does this mean that *you* aren’t allowed to make a living?
Anyhow, I am sure the mods will protect you all from such upsetting questions.
Stealing is stealing. You aren’t just hurting rich pig label execs – there’s record stores, distributors, truck drivers, etc ad nauseum going hungry because of it. So save all your flowery BS about ‘freedom’ for someone who doesn’t know you’re just stealing other people’s work because you can.
“Stealing is stealing. You aren’t just hurting rich pig label execs – there’s record stores, distributors, truck drivers, etc ad nauseum going hungry because of it. So save all your flowery BS about ‘freedom’ for someone who doesn’t know you’re just stealing other people’s work because you can.”
Sony’s sales went up over 15% in 2007. In December 2007, 4.4 million jobs were cut.
Don’t be overdramatic about statistics that don’t exist. I’m a musician too, but I’m one that’s smart enough to know that music is art and not a business. Money should be earned from selling CDs in a more interactive way, independently, and through gigs. Piracy promotes the underground, it’s healthier for music.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Showbiz-News/Lily-Allen-Closes-Blog-About-Illegal-File-Sharing-Because-Of-Abuse-She-Was-Getting/Article/200909415391724?lpos=Showbiz_News_News_Your_Way_Region_7&lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15391724_Lily_Allen_Closes_Blog_About_Illegal_File-Sharing_Because_Of_Abuse_She_Was_Getting
and http://www.samknows.com/broadband/news/search-is-on-for-the-uks-metallica-932.html
not having a lot of luck getting the Dan Bull right to reply video track TF posted on these mean stream websites so far, shame…
it could open up the debate so much wider given the popular and catchy tune…
its starting to take off elsewere though
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=dan+bull :)
“Sony’s sales went up over 15% in 2007. In December 2007, 4.4 million jobs were cut.”
lol @ my hilariously incorrect statistics. disregard these.
@MultiCast-DHT Tunnels
its starting to take off elsewere though
Hardly. Strikes me that there’s actually a distinct lack of any reporting on the matter by mainstream media, of which I’m completely unsurprised.
Recognise that, and see the ugly wiring under the boards.
Epic song man! Gonna check out the rest of your stuff.
What he ^ said…
You say batman I saw Vawncast
All the stupid Americans shut the feck up with “Who’s Lilly Alen?”, Go and SEARCH FOR IT, stop giving us your ignorant comments.
@208
Yeah, fuckin’ Yanks! And fuckin’ pommies too! Illiterate retarded bastards.
Great tune…nicely rapped/ripped, but what about the Marxist critique of Napster/Metallica?
http://www.sciencetext.com/metallica-napster-and-marx.html
I’d take her anally, I’m into Eurotrash.
Id’ take her anally
Wow! This put a big smile on my face this morning! Nicely done ;)
@Torrentfreakscensorsposts
This argument is hilarious to watch. In general, I constantly see people post “Piracy is not stealing. People have a right to share their property with others” and then retards come back with “Face it, stealing is stealing. And you’re not just stealing from…”
It’s funny to watch how stupid people are.
And don’t think for a second that torrent freak’s censors are overzealous, or that they think they need to ‘protect’ us from unsettling thoughts like “stealing is stealing.” First of all, we’ve heard all that illogical bullshit before (OH NOES a swear! Guess what? I won’t get censored!) and have you ever heard of ‘neo styles’ or so-called ‘reasoned mind’?
I’m guessing the censor was a fluke, or torrent freak’s mods just wanted a laugh to see what you’d say after they censored you.
Anyway, that song was hilarious; I loved it.
While Lily Allen is freakin stupid, the people that actually buy into her shit are beyond stupid. I feel like the only explanation is that they just can’t analyze arguments right, and can’t manage enough cognitive thought to form an independent, complete opinion.
For example, Torrentfreakscensorspost is just using the argument it got from an anti-piracy propaganda ad, slightly rewritten to be even dumber. It’s already accepted the PIRACY IS STEALING!!! propaganda. It feels like it doesn’t even need to mention piracy once – mentioning stealing seems to be enough. Using ’stealing’ as a synonym for ‘piracy’, it says “stealing is stealing”
The amount of toolery evident here is astounding.
P.S. I define a ‘tool’ as one incapable of formulating their own personality or opinions, who instead borrows others’.
I also use ‘it’ rather than ‘they’ as a male-female third person pronoun. It just makes more sense.
@name
There is no censorship. Certain words, and styles of posts, and those coming from IPs that have previously spammed but don’t match the spam rules are held for moderation. Unless it’s spam, an attack on someone or a duplicate comment, it’s approved. It’s not always to people’s liking, but it keeps the comment section usable.
Dan Bull’s is a attention whore. No better than tabloid leeches.
nice fucking somg man!
ill mention dans name to my friends.
great song it.
the dude who wrote were all the pirate bay had a great message but the song was a lil feminine. this one is a bit better.
@Name
Hahaha, nice. I love watching these bitch-fights too! I usually grab some corn chips and put on NOFX – Dinosaurs Will Die whilst reading.
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