Lily Allen has given up her fight against illegal file sharing and says she has quit the music business altogether after rows with file sharers. Earlier this week Allen launched a blog, "It's Not Alright", in which she slammed illegal downloading and threw her support behind plans by the British Government to disconnect music pirates.

However she suddenly found herself dubbed a pirate after Techdirt, accused her of reproducing parts of one of its articles on her blog without attribution. The magazine claimed that she illegally distributed mixtapes of other people's music for free on her website.

Basically they said she was  hypocritical to claim that file sharing is somehow evil and destroying the industry when she appears to be an active participant and used it to promote herself.Allen said that she made the mixtapes five years ago when she didn't know much about the industry.Techdirt claimed that technology made it easy for people to infringe someone else's copyright while believing they were doing a fair and reasonable thing.

As a result of the expose, Allen was swamped with savvy web users.She has shut down the blog, but before she went she said that she was quitting music. This was apparently partly due to file sharing and the abuse she was getting over her support for the British Government's disconnection policy.

"The days of me making money from recording music has been and gone as far as I'm concerned ... Slagging me, my music and my so-called 'family connections' off, and calling me a government puppet is not going to get anyone anywhere, so stop it," she wrote.
Allen's statements were news to her publicists who said that Allen was not quitting pop music.