The first LEGAL tab site?

[Vandelay]

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

 

[elbush]

Cool site...I have a learning disability when it comes to reading music. Tab comes in handy.

 

[McHaven]

I still say tabs were never illegal in the first place.

 

[DeanT]

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.

 

[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.

 

[Human Bass]

Frankly, its quite bizarre how a tab can be "illegal".

 

[GeneralElectric]

Tab sites were illegal because Sheet Music Publishers were greedy

 

[Baryonyx]

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!

 

[megadan]

lol@ glaring mistakes!

lol@ jerks!

I wrote unlegal on purpose. Not illegal, because I don't think tabs are. Expressionism ftw!

 

[Oscar South]

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!

 

[Doughd54]

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

 

[superflybass]

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

 

[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?

 

[JJBACOOMBA]

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!!!!

 

[soong]

gosh. finally MXtabs is back!


party!

 

[thesteve]

Hasn't www.ultimate-guitar.com been legal this entire time?

 

[soong]

Hasn't www.ultimate-guitar.com been legal this entire time?

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 =\

 

[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.

 

[theunknowndude]

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!

 

[heroincredible]

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:

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.