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"According to the BBC, the Music Publishers' Association is stepping up to launch the next phase in the music industry's battle against online music. The MPA is demanding jail time for the maintainers of websites offering unlicensed song scores and lyrics. The MPA President has stated that closing websites and imposing fines is not enough, stating that by 'throw [ing]in some jail time I think we'll be a little more effective' in its crusade."
Just a matter of time before we will be driven underground in order to listen to good songs.
The article about the RIAA banning telling friends about songs is from The Onion, but they really are advocating prison sentences for people who post unlicensed lyrics or song scores.
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az_bont wrote:The article about the RIAA banning telling friends about songs is from The Onion, but they really are advocating prison sentences for people who post unlicensed lyrics or song scores.
az_bont wrote:The article about the RIAA banning telling friends about songs is from The Onion, but they really are advocating prison sentences for people who post unlicensed lyrics or song scores.
They tried to hunt down guitar tab sites a few years ago. This is apparently why a lot of major sites will now only show the first word of a line in a song, followed by some dashes.
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I think they shut down a site caled pearLabs a while ago. Hopefully this doesn't spread, because it may even reach into midi's if the RIAA get's paranoid enough. And then what will we have?
TyBO wrote:This is stupid. Do they think the artists really care if people learn how to play their songs on guitar? Or know the words to them for that matter?
I think this is bullsh!t. I've been using tabs for years, in particular bass tabs. I can see how the lyrics may be a breach of copyright, but I don't think tabs are, unless they are directly pulled from a magazine or something. Tabs are just someone's perception of how a song is played. Besides tabs aren't sold or anything.
"and if your kids don't obey you, you can always beat them with a sack of Valencia oranges. They don't leaves bruises and your kids will always know who's boss."
Anyone remember the Pepsi/iTunes Anti-RIAA Commercial?
It first aired during the 2004 Superbowl, but word got 'round and this stirred up quite a crowd of enthusiasts days before it aired. Even though the message isn't 100% "go to hell, RIAA," it suffices quite well.
True, but I was referring to the tabs that you can find on sites such as tabcrawler or the bass tab archive.
To me, making homemade tabs illegal is the same as making everything on GameFAQs illegal as well. I mean strategy guides are sold in stores as well.
"and if your kids don't obey you, you can always beat them with a sack of Valencia oranges. They don't leaves bruises and your kids will always know who's boss."
Invizix wrote:Anyone remember the Pepsi/iTunes Anti-RIAA Commercial?
It first aired during the 2004 Superbowl, but word got 'round and this stirred up quite a crowd of enthusiasts days before it aired. Even though the message isn't 100% "go to hell, RIAA," it suffices quite well.
I don't think it's Anti-RIAA at all. Up until recently, Apple only let major labels (which are affiliated/protected by the RIAA) have music available on the iTunes Music Store. So, really, it's not Anti-RIAA at all, it's just pushing legal music downloads.
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