WEBVTT 00:00:04.197 --> 00:00:06.634 I was born 00:00:06.634 --> 00:00:07.478 way back 00:00:07.493 --> 00:00:09.985 In 1986 00:00:09.985 --> 00:00:11.308 I'm an old man now 00:00:11.308 --> 00:00:15.243 but I remember how it used to be 00:00:15.274 --> 00:00:17.670 and now my grandchildren ask me: 00:00:17.670 --> 00:00:19.807 Grandad, they say, 00:00:19.807 --> 00:00:21.293 can you tell us what it was like 00:00:21.293 --> 00:00:22.547 in the days of the Internet, 00:00:22.547 --> 00:00:24.660 you know, before SOPA? 00:00:24.660 --> 00:00:25.913 And I tell them: 00:00:25.913 --> 00:00:28.516 When was that? Let me see ... 00:00:28.561 --> 00:00:29.466 some time back 00:00:29.466 --> 00:00:31.440 in the early XXI century 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:34.017 I remember when the Internet was free 00:00:34.017 --> 00:00:36.316 Behind my keyboard, people let me be 00:00:36.316 --> 00:00:39.195 See, there used to be a thing called Freedom of Speech 00:00:39.195 --> 00:00:41.958 We had freedom to teach each other, freedom to preach 00:00:41.958 --> 00:00:44.089 We had freedom to share culture and circulate ideas 00:00:44.135 --> 00:00:47.017 Without the state trying to interfere, enter fear 00:00:47.017 --> 00:00:49.873 We lost that freedom, not freedom as in free beer 00:00:49.873 --> 00:00:52.570 But the freedom to be free from fear, even here 00:00:52.586 --> 00:00:56.053 In the UK, the fact that I am from England 00:00:56.053 --> 00:00:58.401 Isn't a matter that matter that matters to our new masters and kings 00:00:58.401 --> 00:01:01.603 I was a chap who could sing and distribute my music 00:01:01.603 --> 00:01:04.435 And like minded citizens could listen to it 00:01:04.435 --> 00:01:05.782 I couldn't afford an orchestra 00:01:05.782 --> 00:01:07.059 I was a poor performer 00:01:07.059 --> 00:01:10.031 In more ways than one, so I found an alternate formula 00:01:10.031 --> 00:01:12.539 Reintrepreted the media around me 00:01:12.539 --> 00:01:15.256 Satirised the leader lies on found beats 00:01:15.256 --> 00:01:17.555 Talked shop on top of a sample rock band 00:01:17.555 --> 00:01:20.341 At least we used to, until rap got banned 00:01:20.341 --> 00:01:22.083 At the SOPA 00:01:22.083 --> 00:01:24.869 SOPA Cabana 00:01:24.869 --> 00:01:27.539 The place where SOPA 00:01:27.539 --> 00:01:30.279 SOPA can ban ya 00:01:30.279 --> 00:01:32.996 We're at the SOPA 00:01:32.996 --> 00:01:35.736 SOPA Cabana 00:01:35.736 --> 00:01:38.545 the place where SOPA 00:01:38.545 --> 00:01:42.214 SOPA can ban ya 00:01:42.214 --> 00:01:45.163 You didn't have to act twisted to get your ass blacklisted 00:01:45.163 --> 00:01:47.996 Just annoy a big business and get fisted 00:01:47.996 --> 00:01:50.690 They had a vested interest in congress 00:01:50.690 --> 00:01:53.337 If one messed with them, then there'd be one less 00:01:53.337 --> 00:01:55.937 Our representatives never represented shit 00:01:55.937 --> 00:01:58.654 so the Internet was history, this was the end of it 00:01:58.654 --> 00:02:01.046 I remember it like it was yesterday 00:02:01.046 --> 00:02:04.296 I guess that day, I was too lazy to investigate 00:02:04.296 --> 00:02:07.222 The escapades of another state's government 00:02:07.222 --> 00:02:09.683 Now I'm left to pay because the covenant 00:02:09.683 --> 00:02:11.936 that they signed that day, and ratified a law 00:02:11.936 --> 00:02:15.001 Zipped our mouths and took away our appetite for more 00:02:15.001 --> 00:02:17.880 I can't do much about now about the way it is 00:02:17.880 --> 00:02:20.736 But if I can go back and change things I'd say this: 00:02:20.736 --> 00:02:21.874 Truth is beauty 00:02:21.874 --> 00:02:23.476 at least it used to be 00:02:23.476 --> 00:02:24.846 And If you do disagree with this 00:02:24.846 --> 00:02:26.239 then you can sue me 00:02:26.239 --> 00:02:28.724 In the meantime I will keep on using YouTube 00:02:28.724 --> 00:02:31.789 Even if it means I need to find a new medium 00:02:31.789 --> 00:02:32.996 IRC, darknets, 00:02:32.996 --> 00:02:34.575 so digital's down now? 00:02:34.575 --> 00:02:36.967 I'll use pigeons and smoke signals 00:02:36.967 --> 00:02:39.893 [Stop SOPA] 00:02:39.893 --> 00:02:42.470 [Stop SOPA, the Internet is ours] 00:02:42.470 --> 00:02:45.117 [Unite for our Internet] 00:02:45.117 --> 00:02:47.416 [The Internet is ours] 00:02:47.416 --> 00:02:50.597 [Government censorship protecting you from reality] 00:02:50.597 --> 00:02:53.244 [SOPA Dis I don't like] 00:02:53.413 --> 00:02:56.147 [If you criticized China for their Internet, then why do you want to censor our Internet] 00:02:56.147 --> 00:02:58.794 [Stop the war on the Internets] 00:02:58.794 --> 00:03:01.696 [You have no right to censor what isn't yours Stop SOPA] 00:03:01.696 --> 00:03:04.297 [Stop SOPA!] 00:03:04.297 --> 00:03:07.315 [The Internet is by the people for the people] 00:03:07.315 --> 00:03:09.800 [SOPA Stop Online Privacy Act] 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:13.478 [Free Open internet for the people] 00:03:13.509 --> 00:03:15.358 [SOPA is against humanity] 00:03:15.358 --> 00:03:18.135 [To STOP us sharing is the same as to STOP us talking] 00:03:18.151 --> 00:03:20.528 [Stop Sopa Like right now] 00:03:20.528 --> 00:03:23.430 [The Internet is ours] 00:03:23.430 --> 00:03:25.961 [SOPA? So wrong] 00:03:25.961 --> 00:03:28.840 [All your internets are belong to us] 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:31.418 [You can't stop our freedom] 00:03:31.418 --> 00:03:35.372 [Don't let the Internet take a SOPA to the knee] 00:03:38.924 --> 00:03:42.978 [Song by DAN BULL - (douglby)]