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Music industry gets more paranoid

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:28 am
by Dog

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 11:55 am
by shadyboy
Jesus..... :roll:

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 11:59 am
by purlieu
Don't all the tabs have "this is the writer's interpretation of the song and may be inaccurate. This file is not to be used for commercial gain" and whatnot at the top anyway? That seems a bit silly.

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:30 pm
by hippy dave
"Unauthorised use of lyrics and tablature deprives the songwriter of the ability to make a living"

what, and how, the fuck? :roll:

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:20 pm
by Kansler
mr. Keiser, or should I say "Ceasar", can kiss my...

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:19 pm
by stimpee
its fuckin daft. i use lyrics sites to find out what a song is.

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:14 pm
by purlieu
stimpee wrote:its fuckin daft. i use lyrics sites to find out what a song is.
Mmmm, I was thinking about this earlier, and I realised I've used Google to find out the name of a song I only know by its chorus before.

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:14 pm
by Kansler
on the bright side, there's NO way they can succeed. :roll:

they might hassle a few people, but honestly, what can they do? shut down the internet?

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:14 pm
by DaWeeze
Smacks of desperation of someone trying to cover his arse for not producing the results the industry execs expected... :lol:

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:53 pm
by III
That's unacceptable. I use tab sites to help learn guitar and to say that it is depriving musicians of a living is preposterous - a good 50% of the tabs on tab sites cannot be found in music books anyway.

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:20 pm
by Emmet
they haven't got a clue have they.

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:25 pm
by Timbob
Kansler wrote:on the bright side, there's NO way they can succeed. :roll:

they might hassle a few people, but honestly, what can they do? shut down the internet?
they just might...
with the help of a "giant laser"
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