these are users' interpretations of a song.
would it then be illegal for somebody to teach someone else a song?
are you going to arrest me for playing smoke on the water on a kapok acoustic guitar at the void deck because I'm depriving Deep Purple of making a living?
anyway we should all try to use our ears more. early shredders didn't use tabs, I believe they would have figured out the keys and scales and experimented until they got them right.
in my opinion, artists BENEFIT from having interpretations of their lyrics and tabs online. How many of you have heard a little bit of a song somewhere and googled bits of the lyrics to identify it? I've been introduced to so many bands this way that I wouldn't have heard about without.
Similarly a person who has never heard a song by so&so, but learns and loves a song from a tab, will want to get the artist's actual work.
I think Mr. Lauren's just pissed with the world cause his parents gave him a girl's name.