And now, because we love banning things...

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And now, because we love banning things...

Postby )v(ajin Koji » Sun Dec 18, 2005 9:24 am

Clicky

There goes my inspiration :¬ /
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Postby bum » Sun Dec 18, 2005 9:44 am

Sites that have anything to do wiht anything these days shuld start switching to I2P and bribe the developers to get 1.0 done faster.
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Postby x_rex30 » Sun Dec 18, 2005 9:51 am

ROFL.. good for them.. now we are getting busted for lyrics.. OMGWTFBBQ

It's going to make funny court cases.. The judge would probably be like.. "WTF???"
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Postby Tono_Fyr » Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:13 am

I found out about this a couple of days ago when a buddy of mine went to look for some guitar tabs on a site in school and found that they had all been removed.

I'm getting really sick of this kind of bullshit. I don't understand how lyrics and tabulature (Freakin FAN MADE tabulature) infringes on the song writer's copyright. It's not like they're taking the exact down to the note song and putting it up.

Hell, Blind Guardian has links to tabs that are hosted right there on their site. A lot of bands do. It should be taken as a complement. This isn't the bands themselves, this is just the money hungry publishers. God this is such bullshit.
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Postby Catatonik » Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:57 pm

The corporate world is rapidly devouring the internet.

What should be our greatest tool for free speech is turning into a war zone with the Corporations opening fire on everything.
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Postby x_rex30 » Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:59 pm

If they're attacking such simple things like this article says, then we are simply doomed.
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Postby Catatonik » Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:01 pm

We are doomed only so long as we choose not to fight back.
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Postby x_rex30 » Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:03 pm

Catatonik wrote:We are doomed only so long as we choose not to fight back.
We just wait for them to come to us, then if things do get serious, that's when we involve the media, or do I got that backwards?
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Postby )v(ajin Koji » Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:43 pm

I like this part:

"The Xerox machine was the big usurper of our potential income," he said. "But now the internet is taking more of a bite out of sheet music and printed music sales so we're taking a more proactive stance."


They want to attck bloody photocopiers too! :¬ \
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Postby Catatonik » Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:43 pm

No, we go to them, write your local lawyers and representatives, make noise.

If we sit back and take this sitting down, it can only get worse.
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Postby azulmagia » Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:45 pm

If they're going to ban lyrics sites, then just how the hell are we supposed to know what the words for "Blinded by the Light", "Louie Louie" and most Radiohead songs are? Damned if I know.
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Postby Purge » Sun Dec 18, 2005 9:26 pm

lol those sites where you have to sift through crappy ads and annoying popups just to see lyrics should be shut down. They are ripping of songs for profit so you can see how that can piss those people off.
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Postby Unpronounceable_Symbol » Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:27 pm

The lyrics for "Blinded By the Light" are included in the liner of Greetings From Asbury Park by Bruce Springsteen. It is his song originally, after all.

And honestly you wouldn't regret getting the album anyway.

Anyway, agreed with Purge at least in principle. I love having free access to lyrics for albums that don't come with them, but Internet advertising opens whole new realms of agonizing hatred for me.

The thing about shutting down lyric and tab sites is that songwriters are only losing a negligible amount of money from the sites being up, from cover bands figuring out their songs and playing them without permission/royalties. And realistically, most musicians who are going to cover a song can figure it out without lyric sites. I mean, I've been in cover bands playing songs I'd never even heard before, it's not like the Internet is a magical key to learning Led Zeppelin riffs.
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Postby NicholasDWolfwood » Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:57 am

The songwriters lose no money, because the money from the tab books doesn't go to them. It goes to the companies who make the tab books, that are wrong most of the time anyway.
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Postby badmartialarts » Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:16 am

What's next? I can play piano (and tuba, not quite as useful though) by ear. Am I gonna face injunctions because I can pick out most songs one handed after one listen?

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