Hey guys, im surprised that this hasnt been brought up here. If anyone plays a guitar or drums (unless you taught yourself totally) you probably would have heard of guitar tabs, and mxtabs was one of the largest and best website for tabs (no popus etc). Now basically what happend was the MPA are pushing to jail people who are hosting these sites as they say that tabs are now illegal (thats right! the ones you sit down for ages and figure out yourself, its illegal to publish your work on the net). So the guys who run it decided to shut the site down to avoid jailtime.
This really really pissed me off, and i mean big time!! I really wanted to rip the face of one of those MPA assholes.
They say that they own the melody of the songs, so even writing a tab that isnt exactly the same as the song, thats illegal too! So it got me thinking, what is going to be next? Making cover bands illegal? (you know the ones that play in your local) .... ok well maybe not, that might be pushing it too much (its been pushed too far already if you ask me)
But I was looking for recepies on the net, and i was thinking... is THIS next? Surely there is no difference here, they have cookbooks that tell you how to cook stuff, and if someone wants to put that recipie on the net is that illegal? Holy crap man, if we let them win this fight, there is nothing that they cannot make illegal. The one thing that annoys me the most is that they are making information illegal.
I was just very annoyed at the whole thing... what do you think? (especially the recipies bit! could you imagine if they pulled the plug on that!?!?)
