When will these big record companies stop? Now they're picking on tabs! How many bands that are the reason these bloody labels exist started off playing tabs in the garage?Originally Posted by FasterLouder.com.au
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When will these big record companies stop? Now they're picking on tabs! How many bands that are the reason these bloody labels exist started off playing tabs in the garage?
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To be fair, they are correct - it is copyright infringement.
I can't see that they need to crack down on it though.
With copied CDs, both labels and artists loose money, but how are they loosing money from tabs exactly?
Do they think people are saying "well, I won't buy this CD, I'll just learn to play all the songs myself!"?
I guess that with revenue from sales of music down, they have to look for new ways of getting money.
I'd be interested to find out how many artists have been petitioning for these sites to be closed down...
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As an above-average guitarist, I will say this- guitar tabs are NOT infringement. You can play things a million different ways on a guitar, and tabs reflect this- each one is different.
It is your own interpretation of a song, and generally you'll need to make corrections to ones found on the 'Net.
It's just another Scrooging way to screw us. Never mind the fact that all the songbooks I (unwisely) bought are about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
The RIAA needs to get a life.
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I really don't get why they are all acting like they are poor or so... If you see those record label bosses and especially the artists it doesn't really look like it's very hard for them to make ANY money at all... And besides, if it wasn't for illegal downloading and stuff, many artist wouldn't have been this huge as they are now.
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The Arctic Monkeys got huge by swapping their MP3s throughout the online world.
Then, when CD time came, they sold absolutely tonnes- in fact, I think it was one of the most popular in history.
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Ok so should they now make Pianists pay for songs online too? What about all the other instruments? This is stupid.
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They're picking on guitar because it's more rebellious than piano or flute. It wouldn't surprise me if they next claimed that Hitler played guitar.
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Most importantly... lyrics.
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Singing along soon to become illegal then...
Quite a lot of classical music (pianos and flutes) has the advantage of being out of copyright, due to the composers having been dead for a hundred years or two...
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Yep, so technically you won't even be able to hum along to the radio!
And that's good- classical music is some of the best around.
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Woah, lame.
By the way, Power Tab is the best tablature tool out there. If you don't use it, use it.
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That's just silly. Stealing from the rich still does not justify it. Robin Hood was a villain you know.
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So I'll get a film made about me by Disney portraying me as a brilliant woodland animal who alleviated the poor guitarists' problems. Excellent.
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Being poor is still no reason to steal. I have no knowledge about the particular subject at hand, but the attitude towards record companies is just rediculous.
If you should see a man walking down a crowded street talking aloud to himself, don't run in the opposite direction, but run towards him, because he's a poet. You have nothing to fear from the poet - but the truth.
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They deserve it.
Music has become to money driven, it's not about the music but about how much they can make from brainless consumers willing to pay. This is why some of the best stuff out there most of us will never hear outside the bands' local towns; the ones who actually do it for the music sadly don't make it big.
I say we petition the record companies to piss off and stop releasing the same garbage to the masses, and let us have our tabs and downloads. I buy records, a lot of them, but I'd like to try before I shell out 20 bucks for what could ultimately be crap.
i was waiting on a moment, but the moment never came. all the billion other moments, were just slipping all away. i must have been tripping, we're just slipping all away. just ego tripping.
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