Fuck!

[Vic Rattlehead]

All the tabs got taken off metaltabs.com, I never got to save the powertabs for Officer Nice and I Profit.

 

[Will Bozarth]

DAMMIT

 

[Vic Rattlehead]

Yeah I just found out when I went there to look over a riff for Suicide Machine, I wonder if it just happened today or within the last 2 days.

 

[Will Bozarth]

i think this morning. i went there yesterday

 

[Dying Freedom]

They already shut down MySongBook and Powertab quite a while ago...

ultimate-guitar.com seems to be still working.

 

[Will Bozarth]

yeah, MSB went a while ago. i miss that site

 

[EricT]

Happened 2 days ago...

They got a letter from NMPA apparently.

 

[Will Bozarth]

2 days? my idea of time sucks

 

[EricT]

Apparently UG got a letter also and just told the NMPA to go fuck itself... so they're probably gonna fight it and stay up.

 

[Shapeless)))]

http://www.911tabs.com/
Here's one site that works, incase you needed.

 

[Dead Winter]

So why are they shutting down tablature sites?

 

[Dying Freedom]

They infringe copyrights.

 

[Dead Winter]

How? All the tabs confirm that they are without artist consent and are only a tool for education, not a be-all end-all to tablature.

 

[Dying Freedom]

Yes they do, but for some people that's apparently not good enough. This is what MSB has to say:

"Providing some tabs - even made by ear - of copyrighted music is illegal. In order to respect the law, downloads have been limited to the [Composition] and [Competition] files. We are going to make our best to find a solution to offer music content without infringing copyrights."

 

[Vic Rattlehead]

I'm just pissed because those two Vio-Lence power tabs were only on metaltabs, they had the solos tabbed out and sounded perfect. I kept telling myself I should save them but I never did.

 

[Dead Winter]

So if I whistle a song a little out of key, am I in copyright infringement? If so, I hope these people have something really bad happen to them really soon.

 

[Will Bozarth]

welcome to life

 

[Dead Winter]

No, that's the legal bullshit in the US. At least the lacrosse players were acquitted...it's sad that everyone's surprised that the system actually worked for innocent people.

 

[mReEtTaIlRsEkD]

that ultimate tabs site is way better than metaltabs. sucks that they're being preyed upon. tab books cost more than the CD's. and i don't even think guitar pro versions of songs are marketed.

you can read the details on the issue at wikipedia.

 

[RedKef]

I hope I'm not the only person here who doesn't need tabs.