Allen rant over file-sharing

LILY ALLEN has hit out at Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason and Ed O’Brien of Radiohead for condoning the sharing of music on the internet.

The 24-year-old singer launched a rant on her MySpace blog against file-sharing, branding it “music piracy” and claiming it was turning the British music industry into “nothing but puppets paid for by Simon Cowell” as it made it “harder and harder for new acts to emerge”.

Allen wrote: “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 Ed O’Brien from Radiohead don’t seem to think so.”