By INQUIRER newsdesk: Mittwoch 16 August 2006, 16:37

12 YEAR-OLD singer-songwriter Amy Thomas staged a protest outside the headquarters of the British music industry yesterday, following a decision to ban her from a new school kids' music chart because of her views on downloading.
Amy and a "flash mob" of 50 children gathered outside of the office of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for 15 minutes holding balloons with messages of support for the young singer.

Amy had been chosen as one of ten young artists to feature on the My Music chart that launches in October across 1,400 UK schools.

But her inclusion was blocked by the BPI after its snoops discovered she is signed to Flowerburger Records, an independent record label which is running an online petition drumming up oposition to the BPI's policy of suing music fans who use p2p websites.

Amy gained a following of schoolies after posting details of her plight on kids' networking site Bebo. Its members are now encouraging each other to boycott the My Music chart in favour of Amy

....when her 4millionth free download has just marked itself a place in history, and she has no longer a record deal, she may think again.
That all said, it is great to see the kids getting behind her.

She's too young and stupid to realise the damage that her and her similarly young and stupid friends are doing to music in general by using P2P to steal music. Good work BMI for banning her.