My main problem with this comes from my own experience. I bought a Trust 'internet keyboard' which has a 'function key' in Ctrl's normal place, which I have to hold down to use any of the F keys. This means now that when I'm on a regular keyboard, I find myself pressing Windows Key + C to copy something, because my fingers are now used to the Ctrl button not being on the very far left. If that's the result with moving just one key, I don't want to experience the same irritating pattern with all the others.
My ICT teacher over 2003-5 always harped on about his time when "computers took up whole buildings", or when he had to "ask seventeen people before he could input figures" to the mainframe. I guess teaching is where the veterans end up?
If they really could get a significant amount of tabs taken off the net and stop them circulating around on paper (and they really can't), I doubt it would hurt modern music much. Just more people will have to learn to listen and figure out the tabs out of songs for themselves... And that could actually lead to a positive effect on their musical abilities.:-)
That's just it. mxtabs.com is down, taborama.com won't show anything signed.. It's definitely had an effect. I appreciate your point about it improving people's abilities, but my point is that what harm are they causing in the first place?
After they're done with the lyrics and tabs, sooner or later they will sue a fan for putting a band's logo up on a fanpage
I really fear for modern music.
Not sure how well the/. community is familiar with guitar tabbing, but it's essentially an ASCII way of rendering guitar music that even AOLers can understand. Now all the major tab sites are being forced to close or remove all tabs for signed artists due to a new music industry function. It's insane; how are such things possibly hurting the bands?
Similarly, Microsoft and MTV are two corporations (a word that has nothing to do with music) that really don't appear to understand music as anything more than a marketable economy, which is just sad. Just like Orwell said the hope is in the Proles, for music, the hope is in the indies.
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My main problem with this comes from my own experience. I bought a Trust 'internet keyboard' which has a 'function key' in Ctrl's normal place, which I have to hold down to use any of the F keys. This means now that when I'm on a regular keyboard, I find myself pressing Windows Key + C to copy something, because my fingers are now used to the Ctrl button not being on the very far left. If that's the result with moving just one key, I don't want to experience the same irritating pattern with all the others.
My ICT teacher over 2003-5 always harped on about his time when "computers took up whole buildings", or when he had to "ask seventeen people before he could input figures" to the mainframe. I guess teaching is where the veterans end up?
I really fear for modern music. Not sure how well the /. community is familiar with guitar tabbing, but it's essentially an ASCII way of rendering guitar music that even AOLers can understand. Now all the major tab sites are being forced to close or remove all tabs for signed artists due to a new music industry function. It's insane; how are such things possibly hurting the bands?
Similarly, Microsoft and MTV are two corporations (a word that has nothing to do with music) that really don't appear to understand music as anything more than a marketable economy, which is just sad. Just like Orwell said the hope is in the Proles, for music, the hope is in the indies.