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The MPA want's jail time

"MPA president Lauren Keiser said he wanted site owners to be jailed. He said unlicensed guitar tabs and song scores were widely available on the internet but were "completely illegal". Mr Keiser said he did not just want to shut websites and impose fines, saying if authorities can "throw in some jail time I think we'll be a little more effective".

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4508158.stm

The first "enabler" is already toast!

I often hear this blabber from Publishers. They don't host the downloads and or pages which contain stolen lyrics and or tabs, they only provide links to other sites which actually do this. In addition, these clever criminals often dream up TOS and rules where they attempt to distance themselves and plead the case that they aren't responsible.

Sorry Charlie, that doesn't work, judging by the following site which used to provide software tools to find other sites which actually hosted this stolen content.

"As of December 6th, 2005 pearLyrics is no longer available due to a cease and desist letter from Warner/Chappell Music Limited." See this site at http://www.pearworks.com/pages/pearLyrics.html

Networks: The end is near!

In preparation for this article I surfed a dozen or so Lyrics and Tab Sites. Every site I hit was running creatives from major and minor Networks in the CPC, CPM, and CPA space. Naturally, I checked each site to see if they had obtained prior approval to either display or provide links to other sites for Lyrics and or tabs. None of them provided this data so not only was the site owner a thief but in fact the Network was an enabler for this illegal activity. The Network welcomes these criminals with open arms and thus provides the motivation (MONEY) for Publishers to continue to build sites with stolen content and or gateways to other sites.

Networks should become proactive and immediately terminate these types of sites and block all future attempts for Publishers of this ilk to join their Networks.