The UK’s biggest-selling artist this year, Duffy, has said that she doesn’t care about filesharing and people getting their music downloads illegally. Obviously being the UK’s biggest-selling artist she doesn’t have to worry too much about making money, but she did say that she thinks kids will buy more records as they get older and have more money. We doubt that.

Surely if pop stars such as Duffy say they don’t care about filesharing then people, kids and adults, are sent out a clear message that filesharing is OK. By extension, this would mean that they probably wouldn’t buy more records as they got older.

While it is always interesting when stars come out in support of filesharing, it’s usually more effective if they can give good reasoning for their support of people sharing free music. Duffy doesn’t appear to have put much thought into her off-the-cuff comments about free music downloads and filesharing.

Related Articles

 Enjoyed this? Subscribe to the feed.