Dan Bull - D.O.A. (Death of ACTA) lyrics

Only rapper to be called
A thief without stealing
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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

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

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 it's 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