MPA banning tabs (favorite band, albums, fan, copyright, cover)

MusicStudent4Life · 01-03-2006, 04:31 PM

As most of you probably already know, the MPA (Music Publishing Association) is holding all forms of unauthorized tablature as copyright infringement against the bands who wrote the songs being tabbed. This has led to many music tab sites and forums to be shut down. The MPA thinks that this will help bring money back to the music industry through people having to buy official sheet music. What a joke! If they wanted to bring money back to the music industry they should go after the free music download sites. Tabs allow so many people to learn how to play guitar and bass. Don't they see that when people can learn to play their favorite band's songs that it promotes the music so that if the band comes out with more albums then the fans will buy them? By banning tabs all they're going to do is to piss off the fans that are already pissed off against the system. That'll lead to weaker fan bases and will probably also lead to a decrease in album sales. So what are they thinking? I personally think that if the MPA was smart they'd be advocates for correct tabbing of songs, and not try to ban tabs. But that's only me....

what are your opinions?

sleepy jack · 01-03-2006, 04:32 PM

The artists are getting credit does it even matter? They're being lame and greedy.

http://musicbanter.com/showthread.ph...ht=stupid+hell

Muzak · 01-03-2006, 04:47 PM

I hope they die.

shiftael · 01-03-2006, 08:09 PM

no they should concentrae on putting out QUALITY products such as good, full albums and such perahps this would be a good start..
I mean or if they really wnt to get rificulous about it then they should ban cover songs, "tribute" bands, albums and stuff like that too because then the tribute band gets part of the money too oh geeze where will it all end..

TheBig3 · 01-03-2006, 08:12 PM

Greed is an ugly monster. We need some people to constantly send tab around the internet, and just make them insane like gnutella once did.

PerFeCTioNThrUSileNCe · 01-03-2006, 08:17 PM

its petty, i mean, like the music industry doesnt bring in enough already. what are tabs going to do....put a little less in their pocket every month?

whats even more ridiculous is that most tabs on the internet arent even exact. most of them are interperetations of the songs.

~~bungalow~~ · 01-03-2006, 08:56 PM

www.ultimate-guitar.com

Ive been using that since I started playing, and it hasnt shut down yet

PerFeCTioNThrUSileNCe · 01-03-2006, 09:31 PM

god.....mxtabs.net got shut down.........fuckers...

sleepy jack · 01-03-2006, 10:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bungalowbill357

www.ultimate-guitar.com

Ive been using that since I started playing, and it hasnt shut down yet

To be honest ultimateguitar's tabs are so off and crappy =/, but i suggest just googling the tab you want, you can usually find a decent version.

PerFeCTioNThrUSileNCe · 01-03-2006, 10:39 PM

www.olga.net also has some good stuff. theyre usually pretty accurate and decent.

01-03-2006, 04:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
MusicStudent4Life Groupie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: cali Posts: 6	MPA banning tabs As most of you probably already know, the MPA (Music Publishing Association) is holding all forms of unauthorized tablature as copyright infringement against the bands who wrote the songs being tabbed. This has led to many music tab sites and forums to be shut down. The MPA thinks that this will help bring money back to the music industry through people having to buy official sheet music. What a joke! If they wanted to bring money back to the music industry they should go after the free music download sites. Tabs allow so many people to learn how to play guitar and bass. Don't they see that when people can learn to play their favorite band's songs that it promotes the music so that if the band comes out with more albums then the fans will buy them? By banning tabs all they're going to do is to piss off the fans that are already pissed off against the system. That'll lead to weaker fan bases and will probably also lead to a decrease in album sales. So what are they thinking? I personally think that if the MPA was smart they'd be advocates for correct tabbing of songs, and not try to ban tabs. But that's only me.... what are your opinions?

01-03-2006, 08:12 PM	#5 (permalink)
TheBig3 killedmyraindog Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Posts: 11,172	Greed is an ugly monster. We need some people to constantly send tab around the internet, and just make them insane like gnutella once did. __________________ I've moved to a new address

01-03-2006, 04:47 PM	#3 (permalink)
Muzak Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,050	I hope they die.

01-03-2006, 08:09 PM	#4 (permalink)
shiftael Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 390	no they should concentrae on putting out QUALITY products such as good, full albums and such perahps this would be a good start.. I mean or if they really wnt to get rificulous about it then they should ban cover songs, "tribute" bands, albums and stuff like that too because then the tribute band gets part of the money too oh geeze where will it all end..

01-03-2006, 08:56 PM	#7 (permalink)
~~bungalow~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Hot-lanta Posts: 3,140	www.ultimate-guitar.com Ive been using that since I started playing, and it hasnt shut down yet