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# Rapper Cleverly Slams ACTA & Gallo Report In Song
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/rapper-cleverly-slams-acta-gallo-report-in-song/
- Published: 2010-10-21T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2010-10-21T14:00:00.000Z
- Description: Rapper Dan Bull is calling for the death of the ACTA in his new song. Known most famously for the open letter that he wrote to Lily Allen earlier this. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/10/rapper-cleverly-slams-acta-gallo-report-in-song.html]
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[![Fdfd](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20134885dc932970c-150wi "Fdfd")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20134885dc932970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com) Rapper [**Dan Bull**](http://itsdanbull.com/?ref=hypebot.com) is calling for the death of the **ACTA** in his new song. Known most famously for the open letter that he [wrote](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL9-esIM2CY&feature=player%5Fembedded&ref=hypebot.com) to **Lily Allen** earlier this year and his song [Home Taping Is Killing Music](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3jkUhG68wY&feature=player%5Fembedded&ref=hypebot.com), Bull now continues his prolific and insightful take on the arguments around file-sharing. The lyrics are quite honestly some of the most clever jabs I’ve heard about the business of recorded music. Clearly, Bull knows his stuff and has taken it upon himself to deconstruct the obfuscation in the debates. View the music video and lyrics below: 

**Lyrics**:

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

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 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

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