[MetalHeadConservative35]

this makes me sick, not only do they go after mp3 people who download music that they cant find in stores because its not by mtv or britney spears, now they go after us guitarists for learning songs by our favorite artists, we do not just learn because like the songs, but they make us better musicians in general,

RIAA,MPA,shut up.

[festus]

Imagine that. The mob wanting to send people to jail.

[SteveMcKing]

The good news is -- Warner Chappell apologized!

Discussion at Slashdot.

[flashbunny]

practice makes you a better musician in general.

Downloading free tabs generally does not.

[Old Flat Toad]

As a folk singer and player myself , I can assure you that lyrics and tabs online make it far more likely that I will purchase a given artists product.

I have NO mp3's and NO interest in the format. Bring back 33.3 lp's

[CFC__VRWC]

The good news is that the RIAA is the front group for a dying industry. An industry that packages and pushes no-talent eye candy like Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears while countless thousands of truly talented performers wait in vain to be "noticed" by the cokeheads in charge of the major labels. An industry that blames it's steep decline in sales and revenues not on charging outrageous prices for crappy music by crappy "artists" but instead on people taking advantage of technology and buying only the one or two tracks on a typical CD that are worth listening to and not the other eleven filler (read, garbage) tracks. The major labels are as much dinosaurs as the MSM are, and just like the media it doesn't even occur to them that maybe it's their product, their business practices, that is the problem.

[Lancey Howard]

bttt

[Old Flat Toad]

I've been looking for the chords and lyrics to John Wayne's "El Dorado" for about 10 years. Those that hold the rights have not produced the goods I wish to purchase. Yet they want the right to recieve revenue if I tab it out myself and perform.

Waiting for some ahole to put a 3 chord progression on the Constitution and charge for the lyrics.

[AZLiberty]

There's an opportunity here, maybe for Apple. If there were a reasonable way to purchase accurate lyrics, music, and tabs on the Internet ($0.99 sounds about right), then people might. But if you have to find a specialized music store and plop down $20 plus tax for a printed book containing only one song that you want, you'll look on the Internet for whatever you can find.

The music industry is probably thinking they need to get a handle on illegitimate sheet music before they can market the real stuff. If they don't clamp down on user-created sheet music, then they won't be able to complain when copies of the PDF version show up.

Hey, Apple: in the iTunes music store, add an extra button to download the music for the selected tune.

[Myrddin]

When I hear a song on the radio and DJ fails to identify it, all I have is a search on some of the lyrics to get a clue about the name of the song. How can I purchase music if I can't determine the name of the song/album/artist? The greedy idiots are going to further trash their sales by eliminating a means of discerning what is being played on the air.

[MikeD]

Funny, no one objected when the tabs were on the ftp sites 15 years ago. Let's hear it for ftp.nevada.edu!!!

Oops, I'm dating myself again, aren't I?

[MarkL]

I can't wait to be sued by the RIAA for humming a song to myself!

Mark

[mikegi]

What *exactly* is copyrighted in music??? If someone creates a guitar tab of a song and posts it on usenet, how is that a copyright violation? I can see a problem if someone simply copies the tab from a book but if they do it on their own...

[streetpreacher]

Oh good grief!

[zook]

Total BS, the idea that people can't post and share lyrics, chords, etc. We've done this forever; the only difference now is the technology.

We need to bring these people down.

[Fawn]

I thought it was OK to download OLDER music over a few years old???? Aren't they anymore sites for free where you can get older music????

[Xenalyte]

Music publishers and songwriters will consider all tools under the law to stop this illegal behaviour David Israelite National Music Publishers' Association David Israelite, president of the National Music Publishers' Association, added his concerns.

I've read it five times, and for the life of me I cannot figure out what this sentence is saying.

[Revolting cat!]

As one who googles and grabs various song lyrics off Al Gore's invention fairly often (to post here among other reasons) I can testify that many of the sites that publish song lyrics will also include spyware and viruses free of charge, and I suspect are setup with that as their main goal. Don't ever click yes to a popup from one of those sites (might have to kill the browser to get rid of the insistent ones.)