ok...well first off for those of you that dont know, i play guitar. i can't read guitar music but i like to play tabs.

so today i was going to look for some new tabs to practice and was shocked to find the site down. apperently the company that owns the site is being threatened by the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) as well as the Music Publishers' Association (MPA) on the basis that sharing tablature constitutes copyright infringement.At what point does describing how one plays a song on guitar become an issue of copyright infringment? The website, among other things, helps users teach eachother how they play guitar parts for many different songs. This is the way music teachers have behaved since the first music was ever created. The difference here is that the information is shared by way of a new technology: the Internet.

I understand why this might be a problem but I also don't really think that getting tabs offline is copyright infringement. But i dunno...i just want my tabs. If you would like to share your opinion on this please do. I'd like to see what others think about this.