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my end of life......

7 years ago, Mxtabs was started as a hobby by an aspiring drummer attempting to learn his favorite songs. Over the years, the tab site blossomed into a valuable resource for thousands of musicians. We've enjoyed hearing the success stories of thousands of guitar, bass, and drum players who have increased their skills and grown through their use of this website.

Unfortunately, it is now time to close the doors of Mxtabs. Most of you are aware of the claims made by the MPA and sheet music organizations that tablature is illegal. We dispute this view, and state firmly that it was never our intention to do anything illegal. On the contrary, we believed that we were helping the music industry and in particular, musicians. As we have mentioned before, Mxtabs accounts for over $3000 per month in sales of licensed sheet music via links from our tabs. However, since it appears that no sheet music companies are planning on offering any sort of tab licensing, and have no interest in negotiations, we have chosen to close our doors rather than continue to aggravate the industry. To this date, we have not received any threatening letters, but are closing on our own volition. Mxtabs was reopened in February with the hope of receiving some sort of response; with the lack of that response, it is sadly time to close.

We hope that you will be able to further your skills in some other way, and if possible, produce change! Tabs are an incredibly valuable tool for beginning musicians, and they should be utilized, rather than being destroyed. Please stand up for your rights to interpret the music you hear! And please promote tab licensing as a possible way of working with the sheet music industry.

Lastly, if you would like to support the idea that was Mxtabs, please visit the new music review and music news site, Sputnik Music, which was formed out of the community forums.

Best wishes, and good luck,

Mxtabs 1999-2006

PS: If any company is willing to work out a tab licensing solution, please email us at mxtabslicensing @ yahoo.com.

http://www.mxtabs.net/index.html

i was opening my usual favourite tab site and was wondering whats taking it so long. i den googled it and found out that is has been shut down!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mxtabs : Mxtabs.net was a music tablature website from 1999 to 2006, offering free guitar, bass, and drum tablature, in addition to music reviews and instrument lessons. The site shut down in June, 2006 in response to claims made by the MPA about the supposed illegality of music tabs. All that remains of the former site is the forum.

what the hell is this man! i always go to mxtabs to get my jeng jeng...ppl post the songs that they have tabbed on their own so other ppl will be able to play it too...it is just a place for ppl with the same interests to share what they have learned...it has got nothing to do about copying the artistes or pirating any work that the band has worked hard on!...sharing songs is a different thing, but sharing tabs with ppl who just learned and tabbed it out on their own! dats a totally BS reason to go against mxtabs! they should just get a life! bladi morons

mxtabs closed down once, and directed all users to a dumass forum..i was wondering wth happened to it...when it came back once again i bet the world, including me, was overjoyed...and now MPA & RIAA pressured them to closed it again, probly permanently this time... ".....the Music Publishers' Association threatened websites that provided lyrics or tabs with jail time in addition to fines and shutting the websites down."

im so pissed with this...if sharing knowledge is illegal, they might as well shut down the whole internet!!... this is basically what i would say too --> www.digg.com/tech_... and read what mark hoppus frm blink182 has to say... this is total bs man...pretty soon these good-for-nothing ASSociations will shut down all sites that provides lyrics..and den ring-tone sites..and den sue anyone who even dares open their mouth to sing their artists' song

now i have to take my down my mxtabs link also... no more jeng jeng =[=[=[=[=[=[=[... i'll maybe just leave it there la in remembrance of my first and favourite tab site... i'll hv to use ug now...those dumasses better not lay their freaking fingers on them!

went to cameron highlands last month 27 28 may... with ys and his family... he got big family, about 15 ppl... wah i very long time never go there edy... but not as cold as i expected, genting colder... but i think cos we were quite low, not really top of the hill.... i dun really know where we were also actually.... we stay in a smth like rumah panjang kinda house from mns [m'sia nature society]... very back to nature hehe long time never do that edy... the wooden house is in the middle of a tea plantation, so its like staying in a treehouse in the jungle liddat haha den all our rooms got worms wan...my room on the floor got and on the walls also got, crawling here and there... den got 1 pair of mattress, pillow, and blanket there... on the mattress got 2 worms and on the pillow also got 2 worms... dem freak me out... but i still manage to sleep on top there at nite! haha but of cos the worms ys throw out edy la... den got moth and evrything flying about also... but at nite dem nice, so cooling and when you stand at the corridor/balcony there you see the nice view, all the greens instead of all the buildings... got many dogs there also but they dun come near us, but got this 1 dog dat always follow us! even when we driving in the car also it will run beside the car! cutie! so loyal *lam*.... i had strawberries there also..usually i tak makan cos its so sour, but the strawberries there so big and sweet...i bought back a few also.... i wanted to buy back their jagung also but they selling so expensive, i couldnt find the cheap ones... me, ys and his cousin sis came back on sun whereas his family stayed there til monday... den monday kita pegi tengok x-men! syiok... monday following sunday, so memorable...

last weekend i went to melacca (again!!)... i had the amway shooting on fri and it was the last day, so we must finish every shoot, so by the time i got back also almost 11... i dem stress dat time, so dem late and must make danny and angie wait... dinner pun i tak makan... den i ask ys help me buy burger when he came over... by the time we reach melacca also abt 3am... bladi hell might as well hv gone on saturday... din do anything much there... steamboat.. drink.. gossip.. about the black one and white one ''ko ko hak keh & pak keh'' summore black one got long hair and short hair summore.. complicated problems which are not smth to be proud of..
before steamboat we drop by at a supermarket cos jacinth buy cake for all the belated b'days, stephanie, angie, eddie, mindy, danny, peggy, i guess... den while we were driving out of the open air carpark, it was dem bladi jam there and all the cars were so close to each other... eddie was driving behind jacinth, with mindy, me, ys, and angie in the car... den the other car got jacinth, her sis, xavier, daigo (the jap guy), and danny... this old malay fella probbly about 60 y/o wan, went and knock eddie's car..all of us in the car felt it... den eddie wind down his window to look and den just ask him why you bang my car... den the stupid fella started shouting ''mana ada langgar! mana ada langgar!'' den he talk smth abt closing the gap between the car la or some shit like that la... den summore this eddie went and said smth like ''you tak payah jerit orang tua'' ahahaha i rmb he called him orang tua haha den i dunno what's that guy's problem started shouting for no reason... and den eddie came down from the car to have a look at his own car la see got scratches anot... by that time danny, xavier and ys also outside the car edy, wah four guys outside like wanna fight liddat... i sked also, i ask ys stay in the car but he went out... den xavier said smth to that guy, den that guy was like ''lu siapa! lu siapa!'' ahahaha suddenly see one kuai lou coming out probly frightened the shit out of him... he even showed his fist to eddie and eddie was standing so near to him i sked eddie really kena hit, den eddie show back his fist and pull his hand back like as tho ready wanna hit him back liddat... that old guy was scolding and shouting dunno what den ys scold him saying he wasnt even suppose to be on that road, cos that road was one way only and he was coming frm the opposite direction... i tell you that guy dem uncivilised man... its so obvious that you bang ppl and dowan to say sorry, wanna start shouting summore... and summore there was a kid in his car you know... eddie was dem angry..and said a few rude things i rmb haha calling him rude stuff also... cos that guy was seriously being like some jakun, started shouting and denying when it's so obvious... i saw there was another malay guy came out from another car, abt 20+ y/o, either he wanted to stop the fight or wanted to help the malay guy i dunno la cos by that time the guys break off edy and started to get back into the car... before eddie got back into his car, he punched that guy's side door and was like ''pukimak'' ahah den make that old man lagi pissed la den he tried to punch eddie's window.. angie was sitting there den she was so sked the window really might break, but he couldnt reach the window cos he was sitting in his seat, den he tried to open his door but it was locked... eddie was in the car edy wanting to drive off edy but he couldn't change the gear fast enuf, den the old man bang open his door with all his old man power and dented eddie's door... we drove off and when reach back jacinth's hse only we saw the dent... crazy guy.... while driving back angie was like, demmit if we got char siew should throw some inside his car wahahahahhahaha throw all the char siew and siew yok inside

reached back quite late la on sunday, about 12am liddat... it was dem jam on the highway from melacca... den rained so heavy when i reached back home... but sunday dinner had satay celup! nice... ys first time trying hehe he went to jacinth's hse for the first time also and saw her dog floshie for the first time humping also ahaha... went to jeti also... din do much la... drink also din drink much... got around 13 of us and i think 1 bottle also din finish... at the basketball court, one side here gossipping... the other side ys, lionel, daigo, xavier dunno talking what... and den the sam case came up again... enuf of mentioning him la bladi hell..i also almost forgot what he did edy and now xavier telling ys he stole 2 of his handphones... dumass... i also dun really know whats going on and i dun really want to know also... i feel so bodo and i should hv done smth at that time if i knew... aah wateva la