FOOD 4 THOUGHT: Why Sopa And Pipa must be stopped.

Welcome to the internet 2012. In the late 70's when hip-hop burst on the scene as a counter cultural movement. Big business moved quickly to buy home grown talent. So much so that the lyrics quickly began to reflect a corporate lifestyle. Some of the biggest names in the game began to sound more and more like they represented the values of a corrupt regime. Suddenly it was no longer about “The Message” but “Big Pimpin' spending G's”. Hip hop had lost itself. What had represented street life now came to represent corporate America.

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This year has seen the rise of the corporate internet. This has nothing to do with protecting independent artists who have been f**ked over by major labels for years. This again has nothing to do with protecting the copy write laws of the internet in general. We now have a corporate run online system.

The internet was created as a free zone for people to express their opinions and ideals, but with the shut down of megaupload it has proved money talks. Not since it's creation has the idea of online freedom been so under threat. And who exactly are the people behind this threat to freedom? The same scum who monopolised the artists to a select few of talentless nobodies. We all need to wake up to what's occurring. Up until the mid 2000's Sony, Viacom and a few others had full control of what the masses listen to. As things started to turn against them, in 2012 this is there last attempt, a terrible attack on your freedom. They want to take back your choice of what you listen to and take back your option of choice.

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But truly who are these people other than folk who are interested in taking your money and restoring a system which has long been abolished. They should have no say in the internet other than the general man on the street. Yet it is their royalties of artists they robbed which is giving them power. America is under the spell of an unjust corporate system. The latest Sopa and Pipa bills are highlighting a serious problem within the core of media industries. They are ready to buy out the internet and your freedom of speech. Soon there will be very little freedom as more and more “pirate” sites are bought. But truthfully the only pirates are the big business systems themselves.

They are the companies which have created the sad state affairs which is commercial hip-hop. And they are the companies which will now control the internet itself. Obama has let us down by turning down the option to veto these bills. Shame on him. The only hope is that the general public recognise the game that is being played and respond to this desperate last act of a crumbling empire. It is not too late to preserve a free online system, but with each act of control passed by the U.S. Government it is becoming a more worrying state of affairs.

In truth i must conclude that anyone who supports a corporate owned internet or music industry must not understand how independent artists have been treated since the advent of popular music charts. Men who have no interest in the arts are blocking talented hip hop emcees from being heard and in the process damaging their freedom of speech. It must not be allowed! protect artists online from being pimped by major labels. Protect the internet!

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