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Tabs and Lyrics are the new MP3s!?
kikanjuuneko:
I do have a slight beef with your wording, though: it's not the US that has decide to "make it illegal", but the Music Publishers Association that has decided to start taking action. Either way, I think it's fucking ridiculous, and I have the quotes to prove it, courtesy of BoingBoing and the BBC:
--- Quote ---MPA president Lauren Keiser said he wanted site owners to be jailed.
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Mr Keiser said he did not just want to shut websites and impose fines, saying if authorities can "throw in some jail time I think we'll be a little more effective".
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"The Xerox machine was the big usurper of our potential income," he said. "But now the internet is taking more of a bite out of sheet music and printed music sales so we're taking a more proactive stance."
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Also, getting to the core of the problem, from the same BBC article:
--- Quote ---"But most of the bands I listen to don't have tab books to buy so if you get them online, that's the only way you can really learn it unless you work it out yourself."
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Have these douchebags even looked at a tab site lately? 99% of all the tabs available are for music that doesn't get sheets or tab books released. This is ridiculous.
Paper Beats Rock:
--- Quote from: Nolaw_Nocrime ---That kinda defeats the argument though, eh...
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Yes...that's the point.
--- Quote from: Micolithe ---
--- Quote from: Paper Beats Rock ---That's normally how I find out who a song is by before I download it.
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True. But you also need to know who a song is by before you buy it.
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Yeah, but the way I see it the people who are likely to use the internet to find a song name are more likely to use the internet to get a song. A better idea would be for more adverts to put the names of the artists and songs at the bottom, that way the casual viewer would know who it is.
Kid Modernist:
I think it's silly to worry about this deal. Did enforcing sharing mp3s as illegal activity stop it?
Paper Beats Rock:
This might make it more difficult to get lyrics and tabs, as they're available on websites at the moment and they won't be if this thing goes through.
Kid Modernist:
A non-American website should do the trick. If you're afraid of this, save the pages to your harddrive, also.
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