Dey gotz my http://mxtabs.com/ :(

no fear ultimate-guitar.com is here download powertabs you nubs

wow that is some grade A all american bullsh*t, f*ck them. time for WAR.

Tab it or Powertabs has been taken down before because of this but they're both back up.. I dunno how they got around it.

-3 for "YTMND FTW!!!"

somebody summarize it please

Don't forget olga.net

btw I think most of us can read faster then you gave us credit for. speed this sh*t up.

good. ultimate-guitar still works :)

I was so incredibly pissed off when mxtabs was taken down.

sorry about the slowness. And i will work on getting up the other sites sometime tonight.

That's ridiculous.

good stuff, but speed it up.

man, as if those rich *ssh*l*es in charge of the music industry dont take enough of our money through their exorbitant cd prices. now they wanna tell us we cant f*cking learn how to play the music? what a bunch of c*cks

Damn the downvoters are out in full fury right now. This should be at least a 4.3 for informative value. First, trying to stop the production of cassette recorders. Then shutting down file sharing services and suing users. Then invasive DRM which is moronic as it takes NO TIME to rip a CD and make unprotected files. Now this? Guitar tabs? What next, suing people for humming copywritten tunes?

A downvote for this site is an upvote for the RIAA

mysongbook.com was hit by this too. sucks.

anotherpowerpoint.ytmnd.com ... Read this before you make a slideshow. Yours has no glowing text, font is sized incorrectly, and your images are awful. Also, this isn't a parody so you really should use your own music and name... because as it is this is just a poorly executed rip-off.

1'd for posting something that has been happening for at least a year

God damn. They'll sue anyone they can get their hands on. Somebody needs to stop these morons.

How do you copyright the strings on a guitar? Let's take piano keys away too.

http://www.mysongbook.com/ has been raped of all the commercial song tabs.

This has been happening for such a long time. www.Ultimate-guitar.com is based out of russia, so they can't touch'em

This is one of those things that I just can't force myself to give a sh*t about even though I probably should.

Sponsor this, save guitar tabs.

Heres the solution! Dont pay for music ;)

PearLyrics an automated program that looks for lyrics (and tabs) of songs playing in your iTunes has also been KILLED for the same reasons http://www.pearworks.com/pages/pearLyrics.html Luckily the program still works and I have a backed up .dmg Next they'll be stopping autistic children with pitch perfect hearing playing music they hear on the radio.

:( now wheres my tabs come from?! Lol, to hell with the music industry! IM IN UR BASE STEALIN AWL UR SONGS!! Ahahaaha do something about it. I dare you MPA...I dare you........Or don't I mean, I'm fine if you don't sue me....

stop using ie

hahaha

no! this sucks :( i care more about keyboard tabs, but i get the feeling the same thing will happen

i don't read that slowly

This action is about as useful as the RIAA's challenge on stopping the downloading of MP3's. They just want to be put in the newspapers. The first thing you'll ask is "Why is the MPAA trying to stop something that has to do with MUSIC, not MOVIES?" The reason is they are being fed out of the hands of the RIAA. Big shock. Sign the petition if you think it will help: http://www.petitiononline.com/mioti/petition.html

Sh*t!! I use Guitartabs but I haven't been there lately. Some serious business is gonna happen if these regulations go any further.

Bah. Lame YTMND, good cause.. so 3.

What about buskers who use popular songs in their acts to make money? Or large chain stores that pump in music through their com system? Or DJs who buy music, and then turn around and play it for others? Is that all not the same use?

+3 for "YTMND FTW!!!"

Also, I forgot to mention, the song you used appeared in the YTMND soundtrack, volume 12. It's called The Rise of Satan, by kingj4life3.

unfunny truth ytmnd, also old

yea seen it, I was mad, but alas, I am progressing as a musician, viva le resistance!!! (poland)

This is outrageous.

ultimate-guitar.com gg kk thx bai

You could learn the old fashion way and infringe by ear, like I do. Im not bad at guitar either...

I remember people getting shut down for tablature back 10 years ago. The lunacy is as true today as it was then. In those days, the cure was Usenet. But one thing I've recently learned about the old days.. They are, in fact, the old days.

God. that was slow...

"Or DJs who buy music, and then turn around and play it for others?" I hope your DJ is paying his ASCAP and BMI...

Almost every guitar tab site that I know of has been closed down. However, www.ultimate-guitar.com has not been closed down because it's run out of Russia and therefore RIAA, being an American industry, cannot touch that website.

oh noes! btw, you spelled your name properly, except the crazy brit way=pink floyd

The record companies are so f*cking greedy. People are resisting the fact that we're moving toward a point where all information is free, and nothing of non-material nature can be sold. It will take a while, but it'll happen. It's similar to how oil companies don't want us to have electric cars because they won't be able to charge us for

http://ultimate-guitar.com Still up and running!

By the way, I hope the music industry realizes how much they are shooting themselves in the foot. Think of how many people will stop listening to certain groups because they can't play along with the tabs. A TON of artists will lose money.

yeah it sucks. oh well, guess you'll have to learn all 3 chords to those blink 182 songs by ear!

ok...so when people aren't learning to play guitar and there aren't any new bands around. how will they make money?

the only place I could find decent drum tabs was taken away... www.mxtabs.net!

tslatticus has a good point for debate!

Mantenna, how then, will people make careers out of making music, movies, games and books? I'm not saying it's impossible, nor arguing for harsher restrictions on sharing of information. But money has to come from somewhere.

Also, when I clicked on this, I thought it was going to be about how people grow their fingernails long and stores buy them for use as guitar picks in some asian countries.

those damn savages

How dare you use the internet to learn how your favorite songs are played, allowing you to understand them on a deeper critical and creative level? Listen to the radio, buy the new Justin Timberlake CD, and do as you're told. DONT MAKE ME SUE U >: (

THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO WWW.BASSMASTA.NET!!!!

I wonder if there looking at this right now...THEY WILL DESTROY US ALL

I found this halarious because Im buying a guitar tommorow, though I got 30,000 tabs... TY BITORRENT

boo! BOO!

The letter takes too long to go to the next scene.

Ok now that's just GAY.

Only noobs need guitar tabs. F*cking learn how to play yer sh*t like real man. Use your ear. Besides, those tabs were mostly wrong for the most part.

thats bullsh*t

that sucks

ultimate-guitar.com is leading the fight against it.

Hm... Ya know, Cliff Notes synopsize whole novels, quote at length, & in fact, represent the original (c) work in its entirety but in an interpreted/abbreviated form... and THEY'RE very much (c) protected, under the principle that it's for educational purposes. Aren't guitar tabs like Cliff Notes for songs ? I mean, how come it's okay for copyrighted lyrics to be posted all over the net, and karaoke TV screens, ... but the guitar tabs are infringements ?

thats absolute sh*t, Tabs have been a staple of the internet JUST as much as porn. Whats next? Will you have to pay to print a picture? Thanks for bringing this to YTMND's attention

Wow, I haven't practiced guitar in a while, but after seeing this, I tried a couple of my old favorites: olga.net (OnLine Guitar Archive) and tabcrawler.com. Looks like they have also disappeared. Since there is no longer any content there, I can't directly prove it was a result of the NMPA, but I wouldn't be surprised. It is a sad day for music lovers.

As much as I support music and musicians, using tabs as a crutch can be something that most guitarists/bassists tend to do. If you keep looking up tabs, then you'll get dependant on them. The reason why the MNPA does this is because people are looking up tabs instead of buying the sheet-music. (Most of the time, they have tabs IN the sheet music) Besides, you know with the sheet-music that it's right. Not everything someone posts on a tab website is correct...

You JUST found out about this? R.I.P mxtabs (months ago). Worst point in music EVER

i dont think it should matter, because 99% of internet tabs are so wrong i can't use them.

ultimate-guitar.com still stands strong, but this is a huge concern to me. I learned guitar from internet tabs, and I never would have without them. The only thing this "Ban" does is force up and coming guitarists to spend money buying tab books for the one or two songs they want. I would say this means War, but I do not know how to wage this one.

OH NOES!!1! They're going to take my piano sheet music next!

Goodluck guys.

damn the man and all, but looking at user submitted guitar tabs reminds me how bad most people are at guitar...

Wow. The music industry has started wearing thier multi-coloured bow ties of sucktardism.

"If you keep looking up tabs, then you'll get dependant on them." Not really. Alot of people use tabs just to save time, and to make sue it's as accurate as can be. But yeah, as for the copyright thing, it pisses me off. In truth the sh*t you find in magazines is usually more accurate than the stuff you buy from there books. Many times these magazine are copied onto the websites, making them more reliable than these books.

Thanks for pointing this out. I'm spreading the word on my (rather small) website, and on a few forums I go to. I play the guitar, and this... is just wrong. D:

raid their forums.

So now anyone who has a website giving away guitar tabs is... A pirate? Yo ho- *shot*

I recommend Terrorism. When you blow yourself up though, yell "FOR EBAUM!" so that we can hopefully take out both.

Yep, http://ultimate-guitar.com/ survived the blast.

and by miracles you mean dumbass forum radis?

mxtabs.net

I miss MXTabs so much =[

I wonder what they think the problem is with people trying to PLAY other people's music.

tabs are basically the same as sheet music, instructions on how to play the song. That is covered by copyright. what is the problem? Do you support the unchecked free distribution of mp3s that are copy righted?

and what do you guys propose music writers do? you know people who write music, but don't perform it themselves. why shuould performers get stuff for free while music writers get nothing? not all performers write their own music and vice versa. you don't if you are using tabs.

I'm not a musician but, anyway, sock it to 'em.

TRUE!!!

BEGIN THE WAR

gay. I play bongos. guitars are for guys who are trying to get laid, but they sux at it.

Thanks for all the support guys. I made it faster btw. I'll work on getting all the other sites in soon, but I can't tonight. BTW, this is my first GIF, so it's takin me awhile to do things. But yea, thanks for all the comments, good and bad.

This is f*cking lame.. Ive been playing gitbox for 13 years now.. and i learned with tabs.. this is f*cking insane.. How is it infringement? If this is the case then can people be sued, if lets say, you were in a cover band? or Weird Al? f*cking lame!!

What a sad, sad, situation. As a drummer, or rather, a fellow musician, i find this action by those "in power"appalling.

WAR!!!!!!1111one The internet will never forget!

If I were them, I'd just make a clone site at *guitar tab url*.ru, post a link, and say "ZOMG, looks like we have some fans in Russia, LOL."

green day #1. they are just trying to get children to stop spreading sh*tty music imo

wow seriously, wtf

OLGA.net (online guitar archive) is also gone... bastards. Cached message: http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:fmfk-F_f_3MJ:www.olga.net/+olga+guitar&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

While I think it's pretty sh*tty, at least it might stop some sh*tty college bands thinking they rawk because they learned an evanescence song on the internet.

They have Linkin Park tabs, in conclusion, they deserve it.

I don't play the guitar and I find this absolutely ridiculous. It makes me so mad that something useful that can teach people to learn something is being taken off the internet. I would assume most of the people who use the tabs from these sites just to learn how to play the guitar better. I'm sure if any money is made off of the tabs it is a very small amount. This organization needs to get its head out of its ass. This is ridiculous.

your broccoli is in danger.

mxtabs, olga ftw.

I dont get why people dont just listen to the music and play what they hear... i can do it, so can everyone else.

Slow it the f*ck down.

only homo noobs play guitars

they even made fretplay.com remove its tabs