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Posted: 12/10/2005, 3:58 am
by nikki4982
AHHH!!!! *runs away*

Posted: 12/10/2005, 11:04 am
by faninor
Not necessarily... if they "solve" the problem like EMI did for Radiohead's lyrics, you'll just have to apply for a free license every time you post.

Posted: 12/10/2005, 1:34 pm
by nikki4982
:lol: That'd be AWESOME! :nikki:

Posted: 12/10/2005, 10:38 pm
by beautiful liar
they'd get an application from nikki every 1.6 seconds, and their venture would be so flooded and backlogged they'd give up!

Posted: 12/11/2005, 8:17 pm
by nikki4982
:lol: I'll +ruin them good!!!!! :evil:

Posted: 12/16/2005, 11:50 pm
by Axtech
And now a bunch of tab sites are disappearing. wtf

Posted: 12/16/2005, 11:53 pm
by Johnny
MX is gone. :(

Posted: 12/17/2005, 12:59 am
by beautiful liar
:mad: GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Posted: 12/17/2005, 8:10 am
by Kathy
Axtech wrote:And now a bunch of tab sites are disappearing. wtf


OMG.... this is ridiculous

Posted: 12/17/2005, 9:40 am
by Johnny
Indeed it is.

Posted: 12/17/2005, 10:51 am
by Axtech
My guess is that they've shut down temporarily until this blows over.

I hope.

Posted: 12/17/2005, 11:10 am
by nikki4982
:uhh:

Posted: 12/17/2005, 11:26 am
by Axtech
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ is staying up.

According to their message board, they've got a license to share tabs. And as long as the tabs are done by ear, it's completely legal. The only illegal thing is to share songs out of official books.

However, the loophole there is that anyone sending the tabs in can claim to have done it by ear, and just happened to get it perfectly right. :D

Posted: 12/17/2005, 11:48 am
by Johnny
Kinda like the Clumsy tab that I 'transcribed' perfectly by ear. :happytears:

Posted: 12/17/2005, 1:48 pm
by nikki4982
:lol: You're just THAT awesome, Johnny.

Posted: 12/17/2005, 11:24 pm
by Johnny
I'm just teeming with awesomness over here! :happytears:

Posted: 12/18/2005, 9:07 pm
by Axtech
iarecanadian started a new thread, but here's what he said:

iarecanadian wrote:The MPA has recently been shutting down various tab sites because they now think that unofficial tabs are illegal. There is more information on it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4508158.stm There is also a petition going around to stop the MPA and it can be found here: http://www.petitiononline.com/mioti/petition.html.


Please sign the petition and try to stop this nonsense.

Posted: 12/18/2005, 10:39 pm
by Henrietta
Wow. That is so stupid it makes me ill.

I can just see myself singing in the shower and the lyric police coming and taking me away.

Dood, can I get a towel?

Posted: 12/18/2005, 10:54 pm
by mulch
Axtech wrote:WTF


MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY! OMG, this is stupid beyond hyporbolic adjectives. :mad:

Posted: 12/19/2005, 1:39 am
by nikki4982
Petition's not gonna do anythingggggggg. :dance: