Originally published February 15 2006
Music Publishers' Association to begin crackdown
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
MPA president Lauren Keiser said that sites carrying song tabs and lyrics should be shut down, and also suggested violators should serve jail time. The tabs and lyrics are used by fans to interpret and play their favorite songs.
After cracking down on MP3 file sharing, the music industry is to go to war against websites offering unlicensed song tabs and lyrics.
The Music Publishers' Association (MPA), which represents US sheet music companies, says all such sites are illegal and will begin the crackdown in 2006.
MPA president Lauren Keiser said that not only should sites carrying song tabs and lyrics be shut down but also suggested authorities should "throw in some jail time, I think we'll be a little more effective".
Such tabs and lyrics are widely available all over the internet and are often simply the efforts of fans to interpret and play their favourite and much beloved songs.
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Blatantly ridiculous Reports that "the Internet is dying" have been circulating, whilst a push for a system known as Internet 2 has begun whereby information is strictly controlled so as to not allow the overcrowding and eventual "death" of the system.
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