Tab site, mysongbook.com, crippled by MPA
The popular tab site mysongbook.com (the best resource for Guitar Pro tabs) can no longer distribute tabs. Here’s the drawn out explanation from the MPA. Remember kids, looking at guitar tabs is like stealing a guitar from a music store.
This happened at least a few weeks ago, but I just read about it today.
Best I can tell MySongBook decided to take down their tabs as a precaution, not because they were sued or otherwise forced to. Here’s the message from mysongbook.com
Providing some tabs - even made by ear - of copyrighted music is illegal. In order to respect the law, downloads have been limited to the [Composition] and [Competition] files. We are going to make our best to find a solution to offer music content without infringing copyrights.