"once it rids the Internet of the scourge of sheet music piracy" ......... there are much more serious scourges on the internet . I don't think they can really stop it to be honest, they'll close some sites and new ones will pop up. They haven't been able to stop illegal music downloading ........ yet

Those sites are like f**king gold dust when you start playing , This is bulls**t

Methinks the amount of publishing royalties that musicians recieve from sheet music is miniscule so I doubt that this is being driven by them (with the exception of Metallica/Jeff Buckley's Ma is it ever?) And what about the acts that don't sell in enough numbers to to warrent having their music put out as a tab book? This is complete bulls**t.

The other thing that's realy annoying about it is not only are Tab books quite expensive for the people that usually buy them (i.e. teenagers) but many of them really aren't very good apparently. Of course back in my day, we got all our tabs outta the back of Guitar magazine, that and swapping tabs/chords/transcriptions in the playground. Kids, pah! don't know they're born! :D

That's insane. Guitar players only ever learned by trying to copy what they heard and then teaching each other until tab sites came along. I know I did anyway. How many tab books has anyone ever really bought? These sites aren't threatening an existing thriving business...so there's no legal *point* in the whole thing!!! GRRRRR. a.