ebladeboi123 said:
Yup, and on top of that they is no music sheets available for _all_ the tabs that are down.
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MXTabs down for good...
- Thread starter KeithBMI
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Yup, and on top of that they is no music sheets available for _all_ the tabs that are down.
It really sucks that they are pulling the tab sites down 
I like to try and work things out by ear, but tabs are so handy some times
I like to try and work things out by ear, but tabs are so handy some times
Actually....Now I think about it, is there a way to download an entire website?? Id like to download something like ultimate-guitar.com for future reference in case of a site shutdown. What do you think the entire site would be in MB?? They are only text files...
hmmm
hmmm
why are they going after tabs?
it seems like if you could read music, you'd be more likely to get the sheet music than use tabs (I don't like tabs because most of them don't really help with the rhythm). and if you can't read sheet music, you aren't going to buy it anyway.
my argument boils down to this: someone prove to me that a ****ty tab of a Ween song is keeping food off of some poor blue collar shlub's table.
it seems like if you could read music, you'd be more likely to get the sheet music than use tabs (I don't like tabs because most of them don't really help with the rhythm). and if you can't read sheet music, you aren't going to buy it anyway.
my argument boils down to this: someone prove to me that a ****ty tab of a Ween song is keeping food off of some poor blue collar shlub's table.
KarateKid25 said:Actually....Now I think about it, is there a way to download an entire website?? Id like to download something like ultimate-guitar.com for future reference in case of a site shutdown. What do you think the entire site would be in MB?? They are only text files...
hmmm
Not an endorsement (I don't have enough experiance with that), but I'm currently fooling around with an open source program called HTTrack (http://www.httrack.com/) that allows you to do exactly what you suggest.
Im pretty sure i would never have stuck to playing bass in the early days without tabs to keep me going.
Things like this really piss me off - mainly because their offering no other option other then reading music and paying a shedload of money for a book you'll barely use.
From what i gather, their making no attempt to work with the sites to make it a viable business online. Bloody dinosaurs.
Things like this really piss me off - mainly because their offering no other option other then reading music and paying a shedload of money for a book you'll barely use.
From what i gather, their making no attempt to work with the sites to make it a viable business online. Bloody dinosaurs.
pil said:
+50 Even now, when Im a bit bored with what im playing or hit a bit of a wall creatively, I'll download a tab and have a mess around with it for a while. Its not hurting anyone.
Things like this really piss me off too
OMG!
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The Time Has Come
Hey folks, so many of you have been asking yourself why Ultimate-Guitar.Com is still online, while most guitar tablature websites have been shut down by MPA during the past 6 months, including mxtabs, guitartabs.cc, guitartabs.com, taborama.com and mysongbook? The time has come for Ultimate-Guitar.Com to get an MPA letter as well. Surely, that was not something good, but the request to remove all tabs in 10 days.
I would not post anymore "why is it illegal?" messages, as there are enough articles on this topic, like this one from guitartabs.cc:
"At what point does describing how one plays a song on guitar become an issue of copyright infringment? This website [and tablatures], among other things, helps users teach eachother how they play guitar parts for many different songs. This is the way music teachers have behaved since the first music was ever created. The difference here is that the information is shared by way of a new technology: the Internet..."
The Story
Ultimate-Guitar.Com site, as you know, is a bit different from any other websites. We are based in Russia, thus none of US laws and authorities can force us to make anything. *surprise, surprise* However, we respect the rights of the musicians (not copyright holders, which is a big difference), thus we made some steps to ensure that they [musicians] are getting paid for the tablatures we have here.
Ultimate-Guitar.Com website is absolutely legal tablature archive which activity is based on a Russian Organization on Collective Management of Rights of Authors and Other Rightholders in Multimedia, Digital Networks & Visual Arts (ROMS)' license. ROMS is the national Russian organization providing professional collective management of authors property rights and protection of interests of rightsholders in cases of use of their works in digital interactive networks, including the Internet.
We pay royalties quarterly thru ROMS.
At the same time, we've tried to get in touch with all big US publishers, and we've got no response. They are NOT interested to do anything about this. The only thing they care -- is to shut down all tabs websites with no alternative to offer. From an economic standpoint, MPA activity will led to no results. Until they can offer a license to such websites or at least decided on a price per tablature, there will be dozens new tablature websites every month. Can they see this? I guess not.
Keep Rockin'!
Anyway, what does it mean? Nothing. We are legal. We are not going to shut down the website. All you need to know is that we will face the threat and will fight back until you're using the website, contribute and support us.
Make sure to spread the word about this to your friends.
Sincerely,
UG Team.
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The Time Has Come
Hey folks, so many of you have been asking yourself why Ultimate-Guitar.Com is still online, while most guitar tablature websites have been shut down by MPA during the past 6 months, including mxtabs, guitartabs.cc, guitartabs.com, taborama.com and mysongbook? The time has come for Ultimate-Guitar.Com to get an MPA letter as well. Surely, that was not something good, but the request to remove all tabs in 10 days.
I would not post anymore "why is it illegal?" messages, as there are enough articles on this topic, like this one from guitartabs.cc:
"At what point does describing how one plays a song on guitar become an issue of copyright infringment? This website [and tablatures], among other things, helps users teach eachother how they play guitar parts for many different songs. This is the way music teachers have behaved since the first music was ever created. The difference here is that the information is shared by way of a new technology: the Internet..."
The Story
Ultimate-Guitar.Com site, as you know, is a bit different from any other websites. We are based in Russia, thus none of US laws and authorities can force us to make anything. *surprise, surprise* However, we respect the rights of the musicians (not copyright holders, which is a big difference), thus we made some steps to ensure that they [musicians] are getting paid for the tablatures we have here.
Ultimate-Guitar.Com website is absolutely legal tablature archive which activity is based on a Russian Organization on Collective Management of Rights of Authors and Other Rightholders in Multimedia, Digital Networks & Visual Arts (ROMS)' license. ROMS is the national Russian organization providing professional collective management of authors property rights and protection of interests of rightsholders in cases of use of their works in digital interactive networks, including the Internet.
We pay royalties quarterly thru ROMS.
At the same time, we've tried to get in touch with all big US publishers, and we've got no response. They are NOT interested to do anything about this. The only thing they care -- is to shut down all tabs websites with no alternative to offer. From an economic standpoint, MPA activity will led to no results. Until they can offer a license to such websites or at least decided on a price per tablature, there will be dozens new tablature websites every month. Can they see this? I guess not.
Keep Rockin'!
Anyway, what does it mean? Nothing. We are legal. We are not going to shut down the website. All you need to know is that we will face the threat and will fight back until you're using the website, contribute and support us.
Make sure to spread the word about this to your friends.
Sincerely,
UG Team.
Ultimate Guitar has many more bass tabs now that MX got shut down, and Ultimate is based in Russia, so they really can't get to them. At least that is what people are saying on the forums...I never saw that thing ^ 
I would probably not have picked up a bass if it weren't for tabs and their accessibility. It's just like illegal music, if I didn't start downloading music I would be listening to the music I do today and I wouldn't buy the cds I buy.
