RIP MxTabs

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]7 years ago, Mxtabs was started as a hobby by an aspiring drummer attempting to learn his favorite songs. Over the years, the tab site blossomed into a valuable resource for thousands of musicians. We've enjoyed hearing the success stories of thousands of guitar, bass, and drum players who have increased their skills and grown through their use of this website.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Unfortunately, it is now time to close the doors of Mxtabs. Most of you are aware of the claims made by the MPA and sheet music organizations that tablature is illegal. We dispute this view, and state firmly that it was never our intention to do anything illegal. On the contrary, we believed that we were helping the music industry and in particular, musicians. As we have mentioned before, Mxtabs accounts for over $3000 per month in sales of licensed sheet music via links from our tabs. However, since it appears that no sheet music companies are planning on offering any sort of tab licensing, and have no interest in negotiations, we have chosen to close our doors rather than continue to aggravate the industry. To this date, we have not received any threatening letters, but are closing on our own volition. Mxtabs was reopened in February with the hope of receiving some sort of response; with the lack of that response, it is sadly time to close. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]We hope that you will be able to further your skills in some other way, and if possible, produce change! Tabs are an incredibly valuable tool for beginning musicians, and they should be utilized, rather than being destroyed. Please stand up for your rights to interpret the music you hear! And please promote tab licensing as a possible way of working with the sheet music industry.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Lastly, if you would like to support the idea that was Mxtabs, please visit the new music review and music news site, Sputnik Music, which was formed out of the community forums. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Best wishes, and good luck,[/FONT]
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Sad days.
 
man, this tab shit is such bullshit. when i was starting out using some guitar pro tabs to learn solos and such really helped me with my technique and was just really fun to be able to play songs easily. greedy fucks are just hurting everyone =/
 
The fact that each tab is done by a user, not actually stolen, makes them impossible to ever be 100% correct. Of course there are the select few who are really good and will get it identical, but thats not the point. In no way or form is someone stealing something. 1 user goes ahead and tabs out a song to cover, then feels to share it with the rest of the world by submitting it to a website that happens to appreciate such practices. This is just another war against P2P. Impossible to silence, and an everlasting battle. Stupid.
 
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