I support Lily in her attempt to stand up for what she believes and I understand how she feels having been through a similar battle last year.  However, I'm not sure whether I would feel comfortable signing this petition in favour of the three strikes and squeeze bandwidth approach.   Although I can understand the reasons why the FAC has taken this stance.  In the short term, three strikes may sway some people from unauthorised file sharing, it seems like it's putting a plaster on this giant gap between a culture that the industry has allowed to breed for the past 10 years since napster and the fundamental operations of an old industry business format.  Bridging that gap will potentially be even more difficult than it is now if the three strikes plan is implemented, but, cannot truly be enforced or if it's found to violate civil liberties. 

Kind Regards,

Indiana Gregg

Kerchoonz Ltd.

Thanks, FAC, you've just generated a list of artists who I will no longer support. I'll spend my cash with artists with more vision. I'm especially disappointed by Billy Bragg.

A question for Dave Rowntree of Blur. How do you square your position here with that held as a supporter of ORG, an organisation that campaigns against disconnections?

I was at Radiohead show last month, it was in Poznań. Thank you Mr. O'Brien, if you read this, (and the same thank you's for the rest of the Band of course) for one of the best live music experiences I've ever had :)

The ticket was quite expensive for me, as I'm still a student with no work... But I know, and had known it before the gig, that I'd spend my last money on music, supporting all of the musicians I respect and whose music I love.

I'm not British, so this whole bandwidth resticting won't affect me... yet, let's see how it's gonna be like in Poland in a few years. But I'm really sad  about the FAC statement... Of course, I'm not a musician, I guess I maybe shouldn't express my opinion here, cause I have really no idea about artists problems of making a living from their work...

All I want to say is I love music and I support artists as much as I can... But I can't afford, and in my opinion, no one who's a huge music fan could afford paying for ALL the music he/she loves. My music taste, all of the CDs and vinyls I bought, all of the shows I've been to are the effect of file-sharing. My favorite artists were discovered by me thanks to other music enthusiasts and P2P users. I've financially supported all of my favorite performers in some way, maybe not us much as they deserve, but as much as I simply could. And I'm gonna still do it in the future.

Of course, I can see how file-sharing can be dangerous for many artists, but there's also the other side of this issue. This is really the best and the cheapest way for the musicians to get heard. Maybe they lose huge amounts of money but they also get many new listeners willing to pay for their work. It's impossible to tell if file-sharing is bigger threat than a chance for artists and without any good research we just can't judge it. So I guess all we can do now is to accept pluses and minuses of file-sharing.

Again, I'm not a musician and I can't even imagine how the survival in this branch looks like. But it's without a doubt that all of the FAC members are huge music fans, just like I am, and other people speaking their minds here are. Please, just try to imagine how we feel about the whole issue. We feel restricted. I want to broaden my horizons, find new exciting things, experience the real culture, not the 'so called music' which is 90% of what we can hear on the radio. I keep on repeating myself here, but I pay for all I can, the rest of it I can't simply afford NOW but I'll do my best to do it in the future. If it makes me a thief, then OK, call me a thief, I won't protest.

I strongly believe there are other solutions of this problem - file-sharing won't never end as the technology gives filesharers new possibilities all the time. CD prices? New business models?  There are many other solutions to talk over...

I call upon all of the music fans not to be childish talking about boycotts of FAC members... If we want to have right to broaden our music horizons, then let the artists have right to make a living of what they love. If you liked Lily Allen's music and now you say you won't ever listen to her, you hurt yourself much more than Lily.

Mr. O'Brien, as you are the only artist from FAC whose music I ever downloaded and I really enjoy, I'd like to assure you I'd do anything to support your work. And I'm sure there many, many more people who think the same. Just give me some time, cause it seems my appetite for amazing art grows faster than money in my wallet :) The last thing: in 2007 in some magazine there was an interview with Radiohead, based on fan questions. My question was asked, and it was also about file sharing. Your band mate, Colin Greenwood, said in this interview something I'll never forget, something about critcising file-sharing: "You're forgetting what music is all about: excitement and talent and artists doing cool new things that people are into. That's what record companies had forgotten about. they were worrying about all these ancillary questions and forgetting about the primal urge of people to share and enjoy music. And there's always going to be a way of finding money or livings to be made out of it." 

I'm still a supporter of FAC and I wish all of the artists and all of the music fans to find a solution which is the best for everyone. Hope it'll be gained in a spirit of mutual respect and without offending any artists by their listeners and vice versa.

Ola, Poland

 An unenforceable law is a non-existent one. Are they going to start flipping through my ipod and looking in my pockets to see if I have a usb harddrive on me? Even if they would only target internet-based file-sharing (ie: when one computer talks directly to the other via the ISP), it's going to be impossible to track people down if they have even a passing understanding of computer-security concepts.

The reason artists do not understand that it's a lost battle is because artists apparently don't work with, or understand the technologies they are trying to rule by law.

It's just not going to work. Example: It's impossible to get cocaine at all, right?

Just expression of my ideal: I think this business is moving on [should moving on] to the craft, to the physical, to the collectors series. Charge to the wealthy and leave the poor ones reach the incredible sounds of "the gloaming" for example. And please remember we should give the ten percent of our earnings to them.