The SOPA and PIPA Theme Song

YouTube singer-songwriter Forest Gibson has posted an original song and video explaining the repercussions of SOPA and PIPA being passed titled, “The Day The LOLcats Died”, a spin on Don McLean’s famous “American Pie”.

Lyrics:

A long, long time ago

On the world’s largest network of interconnected computers,

Those lolcats used to make me laugh.

And I knew I could make a joke

And not be sued by nasty folk

On the RIAA’s behalf

Then along came SOPA/PIPA

The internet’s very own grim reaper

users could not edit

Ars Technica and Reddit

Tumblr, Gawker, Hacker News,

and Something Awful sang the blues,

Every login was refused,

The day the lolcats died

Why, why are laws a thing you can buy?

They got paid off, should be laid off, re-election denied

Our web means more than lawyers, lobbies and lies

So speak up before the internet dies

Speak up before the internet dies

Can you write a decent law

Do you care ’bout copyright at all?

Or just winning back your seat

Content will begin to ebb

You’ll watch the slow death of the web

You’ll be left with nothing more to tweet

Well, I know it’s looking pretty grim

Cuz’ they’ll tear our culture limb from limb

There’s too much damn support

Oh this law we must abort

Oh-oh we can’t let lobbies run amok

With our series of tubes and that big dump truck

I know some folks who oughta give a fuck

The day the lolcats die

I hear you singin’,

Why, why are laws a thing you can buy?

They got paid off, should be laid off, re-election denied

Our web means more than lawyers, lobbies and lies

So speak up before the internet dies

Speak up before the internet dies