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04-04-2008, 12:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO | | | The first LEGAL tab site?
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MXTabs.net opened to the public recently. It's an interesting concept -- they're supposedly the only free tab site that's actually legal. They get permission from the publishers to have songs appear there, and they pay the publishers a share of their revenue from banner ads.
The tabs themselves are still user-created, so there's no guarantee of accuracy. But they do have a way for you to post your own corrections.
Yeah, yeah, tabs suck, I've heard it all before. But I still think it'd cool if it succeeds.
Check it out: http://www.mxtabs.net
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04-04-2008, 06:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Bend, OR | | Cool site...I have a learning disability when it comes to reading music  . Tab comes in handy. |
04-04-2008, 07:36 PM
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Probably in a lot of other clubs as well.
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04-04-2008, 07:37 PM
|  | It's a happy song about not getting what you want | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: NY, Just Like I Pictured It. | | | MX Tabs has been around for a long time. They were down for a while recently while fighting a legal battle with the record companies. They're not new, just newly reopened. They used to have a lot of great tabs on their site, but now since they're "legal" a lot of the good stuff has been taken down. |
04-04-2008, 07:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia | | | MStabs is pretty old.
Interesting to hear though. I'm guessing there will always be a need and a supply of tabs on unlegal sites, though. Same as mp3s. |
04-05-2008, 12:18 AM
| | | | Frankly, its quite bizarre how a tab can be "illegal".
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04-05-2008, 04:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | | Tab sites were illegal because Sheet Music Publishers were greedy
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04-05-2008, 05:39 AM
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Originally Posted by megadan MStabs is pretty old.
Interesting to hear though. I'm guessing there will always be a need and a supply of tabs on unlegal sites, though. Same as mp3s. | lol@ glaring mistakes! |
04-05-2008, 10:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris2112 lol@ glaring mistakes! |
lol@ jerks!
I wrote unlegal on purpose. Not illegal, because I don't think tabs are. Expressionism ftw!  |
04-05-2008, 11:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chester | | | MXtabs is a classic, ahh the years of learning RATM, Chili Peppers and Primus songs off there instead of revising for my exams, and now I make a living playing music! |
04-05-2008, 02:15 PM
| | I wanna rock. rock. | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Pompano Beach, Florida | | | as much as I appreciate another good tab site, I kinda feel cheated in the fact that they bowed to the RIAA.. tabs are NOT copyright infringement
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04-05-2008, 02:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: La Crosse WI | | | its because the original people that made mxtabs do not have anything to do with is it is now owned by musicnote a as you all call one on those Greedy music publishers |
04-05-2008, 04:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | I think its daft to think tabs are infringing copywrite, what next, if you sing along to a band at a gig, you have to pay revenue? 
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04-05-2008, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk I think its daft to think tabs are infringing copywrite, what next, if you sing along to a band at a gig, you have to pay revenue? | OMG!!!! SHHHHHHHHHH! Dont even say that. LOL!!!! |
04-05-2008, 06:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: South West Sydney | | | gosh. finally MXtabs is back!
party! |
04-05-2008, 06:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Diego, CA | | Hasn't www.ultimate-guitar.com been legal this entire time?
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04-05-2008, 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by thesteve | Yeah i think it was cos Ultimate Guitar in hosted in Russia or somewhere where the legalities of the tabs and stuff wasn't an issue. Thats what someone told me anyway =\  |
04-05-2008, 07:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Jacksonville and Pensacola, FL | | | I dunno if ultimate-guitar is actually legal, but if I remember correctly, it's based in a different country so it sorta avoids any legal action.
But then, I might be confusing it with a lot of other things people enjoy that's technically 'illegal'.
Edit: Agh, the guy who sucks at bass beat me to it! Oh well. I still don't see how tabs can be illegal. That's like saying sites like GameFAQs, or places that have video game walkthroughs, is illegal.
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04-05-2008, 09:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Adelaide, Australia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by wdinc01 I dunno if ultimate-guitar is actually legal, but if I remember correctly, it's based in a different country so it sorta avoids any legal action.
But then, I might be confusing it with a lot of other things people enjoy that's technically 'illegal'.
Edit: Agh, the guy who sucks at bass beat me to it! Oh well. I still don't see how tabs can be illegal. That's like saying sites like GameFAQs, or places that have video game walkthroughs, is illegal. | arggg please dont say that,... if I lost gamefaqs id cry for all my rpg gaming needs!
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04-05-2008, 10:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Calgary, AB, Canada | | What I find really lame is that even if there is a tab up for a song, I can't get at it because apparently I'm Canadian. I get this: Quote: License Restricted
We're sorry. The song whose tab you are trying to view is not currently available for display in your country (CANADA).
This current test version of MXTabs is restricted to tab displays in the United States only. We will be expanding territories in which tabs can be displayed in the near future.
| I remember when MXTabs before it shut down, definitely my favourite tab site. Heck I even contributed a whole bunch of tabs.
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