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For shutting down my favorite tab site. I will never pay for another RIAA-supported artist for as long as I live (and as much as I can help it). I just don't see how pissing on your customers is the way to build relationships (unless you're going after the most-reviled organization in the world award, in which case, having customers is actually orthogonally opposite to your goals). Someone, please point me to anti-RIAA resources for finding music and tabs. This is such bullshit. At least some folks are working on finding a cure for the commons RIAA plague.

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Dan Lackey · 2005-12-17 19:35:16
ARGH! I cannot believe this. RIAA doesnt even stand for musicians anymore. How does this help anyone? Did anyone seriously buy tablature? No. They bought sheet music, and only rarely. Sign me up for the mob and hand me a pitchfork!
Marco · 2005-12-17 19:51:01
Definitely take a look at http://www.downhillbattle.org/. They have a few nice stickers that you might be able to put to some use: http://www.downhillbattle.org/riaa/index.html
jakedahn · 2005-12-17 20:00:24
heh, who has a hitman lets go have some fun with the RIAA :D .... and someone should make those shirts, i would buy one!
mrmachine · 2005-12-17 23:33:57
fucking *word* ... now, go here for comprehensive searching of Non-RIAA albums: http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/ and you can go to my website to download some CC-licensed albums and tracks ;)
Alberto A-P · 2005-12-17 23:51:17
If you knew spanish SGAE, you would also hate them. I just can't understand all this movements against buyers. It's like buying a DVD, I have to watch and see a lot of ads against piracy, if I download it, I get none. So who's being punished? The actual buyer.
Fairly-Odd · 2005-12-18 13:09:51
And to think, I almost bought a CD today...
timoni · 2005-12-18 19:45:21
Hear, hear. I'd buy it too. "RIAA doesnt even stand for musicians anymore. Frankly, I don't think they ever did.
Vinnie · 2005-12-19 00:50:50
Sorry mate, they got their nose in everything, and it's not just them. some of the artist themselves are in full support of the RIAA, artist and record companies alike vie for every last penny they can get their hands on.
Some starters · 2005-12-19 02:07:13
* http://www.legaltorrents.com/index.htm one quick vist, leaves you with a few 10s of gigs of quality music, ranging from weird to beautifull * http://magnatune.com/ search *and* find * http://www.thinner.cc/main.php if you are into (underground) electronics, youve gotta love this * http://deepmix.ru/disk/ if you love deehouse, you will be amazed by those russians * http://fleep.com/ every deephouse and minimal lover should know this one. * http://vocode.com/electro_showcase.shtml brings you the best (nu yorkian, undahground) electro on a monthly basis. * http://www.hermann-uwe.de/podcast Herman selects the finest Creative Commons stuff for you. Great to find new stuff. and not least but last(fm) join http://www.last.fm/group/Creative+Commons we (i) started to build a list and database of cool Creative Commons stuff there.
Tech Law Advisor · 2005-12-19 07:40:51
How much do you hate the RIAA? Do you hate it as much as FactoryJoe? [Warning: Explicit Lyrics]...
LadyMatika · 2005-12-19 08:16:53
it's like I've been saying from the beginning, their a bunch of money grubbing sob's that want the net for themselves because the people on their are making more money then they are , and finding out music is free on the net is a sin to them and they don't like it when music is free, so they got the big boys out for our heads because our government are like the riaa don't want anything free any more!!!!!!
Ewan McIntosh · 2005-12-19 08:56:14
A really interesting piece today on what would happen if the big media corps went after bloggers in the same way that the RIAA have gone after music sharers: http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/12/what_if_copyrig.html Via Boing, Boing. It points out that most bloggers copy text and images as part of their posts. Most of it is copyright. What do you think?
Dan Lackey · 2005-12-19 13:57:01
Apparently, it was not the RIAA who shut down MXtabs and the like. It was the just as nasty MPA... I still can't find too much about MXTabs response, but I hear that they are coming back sometime. I'll post some links later after I settle in at home.
FactoryJoe · 2005-12-19 14:09:47
At least I have a shirt in the case of MPA aggression. Either way, it's utter crap.
Welcome to bluemonki..... · 2005-12-20 05:10:11
[...] mpany what it is happy isn’t going to help any expansion. To cap is all off, I read [this] on Flock radio, and I couldn’t agree more!! Unfortun [...]
Kal Ström · 2005-12-22 08:35:14
RIAA doesnt even stand for musicians anymore RIAA: Recording Industry Association of America MPA: Music Publishers' Association In this case the MPA is the bad guys and RIAA doesn't have antything to do with it.
willett · 2005-12-23 10:52:04
FUUUUUUCK! how is this doing anybody any good at all. do they realisticly think im gonna drop $30 on a song book for the little flourish after the chorus! christ you know it aint easy, you know hard it can be..........
hector r · 2005-12-29 12:23:33
OMFG i hate the RIAA as much as i hate bush !!! why did bush have to close mxtabs now i have to use ultimate-guitar which doesnt have n e thin...... DOWN WITH BUSH!!!!
Tonuric Bliss (BAND) · 2006-01-10 11:50:25
We say the say about the riaa they should of not even done that but they should at least left the site running with all the uncopyrighted original music and covers by bands that weren't even under the light yet, there wasn't one law broken there.
fan · 2006-01-10 11:53:12
we should all sew the riaa for what tonuric bliss said
SkitZ · 2006-01-11 04:53:13
Does anyone know WHY mxtabs got shut down??
[...] I have a hard time being passionate about F’ing the RIAA. We love to piss on the rest of the world about the righteousness of the free market, but whine when it hurts us as consumers. If you don’t like the rules than don’t use their property. [...]
Questy · 2006-11-17 10:44:56
Okay guys, I hate this too. But does t does it occur to anyone that since we're so upset that we DO see great value in those tabs? If that is so why are we so loathe to pay for it? Is it because we're like a bunch of spoiled bratty kids, who've gotten a lot of free toys and now who don't want to grow up... cause that's what it sounds like. And who say's they can charge $30 for a songbook. The market (us) will deterimine what they can get, which could be no more than a buck per song sheet. While I think they have a right to protect products they decide to sell, I do agree that anything they DON'T offer for sale should be free game--if an interpretive work.

Now hear this: I FUCKING HATE THE RIAA