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Got to thank Jay-Z for this one.

He did a song about what he thought was destroying our rich musical culture.

But I don’t think it’s Autotune

It's something much worse…

Only rapper to be called a thief without stealing

Download an MP3 for free, these people hit the ceiling

I’m just a citizen that’s teaching you a lesson

for restricting my freedom of expression

How can ideas be possessions when they’re freely replicable?

Hence unapplicable property laws are reprehensible

Didn’t Jefferson express his opinion on the matter

when he said inventions shouldn’t be given a patent

What happened to that thinking

we’re stuck in a pattern where the people with everything

are keeping everything from us who haven’t

We want it back, look, fed up of adverts, left and right

begging me to buy til there’s nothing left of mine

to spend, never mind, who’s next in line to testify

that we need laws like these to protect our rights?

Medicine has never been something I’d ever deprive

especially when a life depends on it to survive

Yeah, it takes an incredible effort to develop them right

but putting wealth over health, I said it’s never been right

What will kill creativity?

If it’s not the overload of conveyor belt, manufactured ringtone pop

it must be amateur producers using uncleared samples to advance the legacy of the artists that inspire them

I’m just a citizen that’s teaching you a lesson

for restricting my freedom of expression

and I reckon if old blues themes hadn’t been used by Led Zeppelin

we wouldn’t ever have any heavy metal then

the history of music would have never even happened

and amusingly there wouldn’t even be a Metallica

to tell us that we should hang on the gallows of law

so we wouldn’t even need to have a Gallo Report

Oh and by the way the fricking Gallo’s support

is made of signatures which have been apparently forged

This shit is sinister, and cannot be allowed to enforce

so tell your ministers and MEPs of how it’s been brought about

Although you’ll probably get a shallow retort

because the lobbyists have got a grip around all their balls

If I was boss, I’d tell them get the Hell out the door

because I’ve had enough of corrupt crooks ramming through laws

What will kill creativity?

If it’s not the fact we can’t even download a song we’ve heard a thousand times on the radio, without being charged for the privilege

it must be the fans lovingly crafting mixtapes and mashups to share with like minded musical enthusiasts

I’m just a citizen that’s teaching you a lesson

for restricting my freedom of expression

Yes, and deep packet inspection?

Squeeze that up your rectum

If your postman did that to you you’d be having him sectioned

arrested for meddling in your private affairs

But it’s only online, right? so why should we care?

Because digital rights should be applicable

right here in real life, and we’re not criminals, right?

So this is just why we’ll never give up the fight

to be considered innocent until we kick up and die

Giving internet providers responsibility

for the whims of their subscribers infringes privacy

Before the internet, media was a rarity

but how do you expect it to keep its value without scarcity

And that’s what scares me, seeing their cons and schemes

to stop their creaking business model being obsolete

What a robbery they pull off so obviously

Don’t give a fuck who it affects as long as it’s not me

Well I’ll keep making copies

see if they can stop me

They’ll have to confiscate my PC and take it off me

See there’s no problem with taking my property for creating some lines of binary

blatant hypocrisy

Afraid to face the controversy relating to what we need

Making a profit off it or breaking monopolies

What will kill creativity?

If it’s not the stranglehold the record industry has over broadcasting media

meaning only the chosen few marketable marionettes get a sliver of the pie

while the rest fight for the stale crumbs on the floor…