So I tried to go to my favourite tab site (MXtabs.net) yesterday and it wasn't working. I figured their server must be down. I tried again today and it still didn't work, so I figure something must be up. It turns out that the Music Publishers of America are trying to do to tab and lyric sites what the RIAA is doing to file-sharing.
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Now I didn't get all up in arms when the RIAA started taking down file sharing software, it may have sucked but they did have a point. But doing it to tab makes no sense. An mp3 is a direct copy of something that's available to be purchased, tab isn't. There are tab books out there for some bands that you can purchase, and occasionally you'll actually see a tab that's been taken from a tab book, but probably 98% of the tabs out there are simply by-ear transcriptions.
What's worse is that they won't stop it. They may take down the big sites, but all you have to do is go to a fan page for a particular band and they will often have a better and more diverse selection of tabs for a particular band.
Once again, this proves why big business has no place in music. With all the copy protection on CDs and now the tab stuff, they've pushed me over the edge.
I bought my first CD in 1996, and since then I've spent between $1,000 - $1,500 on music. And now I'm being told that I can't enjoy it the way I want? To hell with all of them.
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Bah. It's because these damn "executives" are complete morons, who could care less really about the artists, they just want to keep their deep cuts.
That's why I never bought CD's -- most of the money goes to these fucking "executives" (rich, fat old white men), not to the artists themselves. I'd rather see my fav bands in concerts, supporting them that way.
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