Fwd: @AaronSw Strikes Again

[Samuel Klein]

Via David Isenberg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du4WoNIlsh4

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From: "David S. Isenberg" <is...@isen.com>
Date: Mar 28, 2016 21:38
Subject: Re: [berkmanfriends] @AaronSw Strikes Again
To: "Berkman Friends" <berkman...@eon.law.harvard.edu>
Cc:

Samuel,

Here are the lyrics, definitely an Aaron tribute:

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From: "jon panic" <jon....@yahoo.com.au>

Subject: RE: @AaronSw Strikes Again

Date: March 28, 2016 at 10:25:36 PM EDT

To: "'David S. Isenberg'" <is...@isen.com>

For sure, here you go!

Chorus:

Lock's not for the thief,

It's for opportunity...

Opportunity.....

Verse 1:

Information, locked away

aint no price we’d ever pay   

so we walk the wires - we're moving on

before the opportunity is gone

we’ve jumped right in -  it's a hit and run

and we don’t stop until the work is done

yeah we’re moving on into the light

and never leave a single word behind

Verse 2:

Now we sneak through holes and up and over walls

to liberate a hidden billion words

we're working on into the night

just to try and bring the balance right

we’ve jumped right in like a hit and run

never stop until the work is done

we’re moving on into the light

and never leave a single word behind

Aaron Swartz sample:

…make no mistake: The enemies of the freedom to connect have not disappeared… if we let Hollywood rewrite the story…if we let them persuade us we didn’t actually make a difference, if we start seeing it as someone else’s responsibility to do this work and it’s our job just to go home and pop some popcorn and curl up on the couch to watch Transformers, well, then next time they might just win. Let’s not let that happen.

-----Original Message-----
From: David S. Isenberg [mailto:is...@isen.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 1:14 PM
To: jon panic <jon....@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: @AaronSw Strikes Again

Do you have the song's lyrics in text form?

David I

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On Mar 28, 2016, at 11:01 PM, Samuel Klein <met...@gmail.com> wrote:

Wow. Thank you for sharing, David.

On Mar 28, 2016 18:30, "David S. Isenberg" <is...@isen.com> wrote:

Berkpeople,

Aaron Swartz's contributions to culture keep on
generating. Jon Panic, the lead singer for the Australian
roots-reggae-remix band Black Bird Hum, got in touch with
me several years ago to ask if he could use some audio
from Aaron's great 2012 F2C: Freedom to Connect speech.
I told him that as far as I was concerned, the proceedings
of F2C were in the public domain, and certainly Aaron
would not want it any other way. Then I forgot all about
it.

A couple of weeks ago Jon Panic (who? then I remembered)
emailed me this track, Lock Not For The Thief, from their
new record, All Night. Panic wrote, "The verse lyrics are,
in part, adapted from Aaron's Guerilla Open Access
Manifesto.  The sample at the end is from Aaron's speech
at F2C 2012 as we'd previously talked about."

So here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du4WoNIlsh4
with Aaron's own voice mixed in at 2:28 ff.

Nice music too! Panic says, "Feel free to pass on this
track to anyone you think might be interested."

David I


2:28

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