Re: Buzzing about RIAA

This site was working above board, and I still don't accept it as illegal.
"No Busking" <nobusking@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> When I wrote:
>> > So you're a supporter of copyright protection, except for those things
> you
>> > like to get for free?
>
> Lon replied:
>> Just where in the hell did I say that?
>
> When you said that you go to Powertabs and download a song if you like it.
> Publishing someone else's song without their permission, and without
> paying
> compensation to them for it is a very clearly a violation of their
> intellectual property rights, and you are supporting that violation by
> downloading tabs.
>
> Powertabs doesn't pay the artists for their work, yet attracts people to
> their website with their songs. They collect advertising revenue as a
> result of the traffic the site generates. The artists get nothing, even
> though they wrote the music and the lyrics. People that had nothing to do
> with the creation of the music get all the money.
>


This site was working above board, and I still don't accept it as illegal.
The guys who do the transcribing are offering their rendition of the song,
not the actual, exact song played by the artist (a fine line admittedly
since they are trying to get as close as possible). They do not get
compensated for it. Should a grocery store pay teh publisher of Tennyson
because a person quoted him on a 3x5 card selling his lawnmower? What about
this newsgroup when someone quotes a line in a song in their signature. I
will probably not download tab for the time being, because of the
controversy, but I hope the law comes down on the side of what I consider
common sense. It is not the artists who are hurt by this, it is theMPA.


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