mxtabs closes down! tabs are deemed illegal by MPA
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DarknessFury
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It's been long news already, isn't it?
very weird... i mean if you copy music directly and post into internet its illegal, but if you listen to the music and try to sing it n post onto internet its not illegal right? Similarly for tabs, most of the tabs are not copied from official transcriptions, but what the listener hears and interpreted. Most of us who use tabs know that there will always be abit of mistakes here and there but to shut the site down is too much lah
The tabs posted on the net are mostly throught the efforts of the individual transcribers who did not obtain any licensing from the labels, whereas publishers like Hal Leonard and mags like GuitarOne do. Licensing allows the labels to collect royalties when the tabs are published, whereas the tabs on the net are usually 100% free. Thus the bottomline for all these issues is $$$.
Illegal or not is a lil hard to pin down, cos whatever stipulations you put up, there will always be loopholes t0 get around them. Anyway, if I managed to figure out the song all by myself without the help of the tabs, am I doing something illegal? I certainly dun ave to pay anyone for something I've done by myself. What about cover songs that seem actually to violate performing rights of the original artists?
This whole music industry thing sometimes is like playing the hit-the-mole game. You hit one mole, another one pops up somewhere else. The more they (the authorities or whatever) try to do something, the more things they find they'd have to do later. Last time was mp3. Now tabs. What next? Cover bands? Dun really know who's truly killing the industry...
Illegal or not is a lil hard to pin down, cos whatever stipulations you put up, there will always be loopholes t0 get around them. Anyway, if I managed to figure out the song all by myself without the help of the tabs, am I doing something illegal? I certainly dun ave to pay anyone for something I've done by myself. What about cover songs that seem actually to violate performing rights of the original artists?
This whole music industry thing sometimes is like playing the hit-the-mole game. You hit one mole, another one pops up somewhere else. The more they (the authorities or whatever) try to do something, the more things they find they'd have to do later. Last time was mp3. Now tabs. What next? Cover bands? Dun really know who's truly killing the industry...
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I heard that the RIAA has threatened legal action against youtube users who post clips of themselves dancing to unlicenced music. So yeah we're not gonna see the end of it yet.
hellmurderer
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Slowly the internet will also be illegal... :lol:
If forums kena, this might extend to the whole freedom of speech thing, which is probably non-existent in the first place :lol:
Anyway, as an artist, wouldn't you feel heartened that somebody out there likes your song enough to actually wanna figure it out and learn it? We all know that tab sites dun have ALL the songs transcribed off the ENTIRE album of any given artist, only those which the transcriber likes and wants to transcribe. So it's pretty evident this exercise is more out of passion than for any commercial exploits. So if anyone has to be paid, shouldn't the transcriber be the first to get some?
Anyway, as an artist, wouldn't you feel heartened that somebody out there likes your song enough to actually wanna figure it out and learn it? We all know that tab sites dun have ALL the songs transcribed off the ENTIRE album of any given artist, only those which the transcriber likes and wants to transcribe. So it's pretty evident this exercise is more out of passion than for any commercial exploits. So if anyone has to be paid, shouldn't the transcriber be the first to get some?
www.ultimate-guitar.com is still open
Tribalcast
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Youtube? Wah like that I safe already ah. Cause account got disabled already so cannot catch me. :lol:
