Can Guitar Tablature Go Legit?
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Most of us remember what happened with recorded music. After services (like Napster) that permitted people to share music for free were taken down by the RIAA, Apple launched its iTunes store with the blessing of the music industry (blessings are routinely granted in this business in exchange for a piece of the action).
The iTunes store had music from all of the major record labels and was organized in such a way that the music was easy to find. At $.99 per track, the price was right too. By June of this year, Apple had sold over 5 billion songs in iTunes.
When I started learning how to play the guitar, a good friend of mine recommended Olga. At the time, Olga was the most popular service for finding guitar tablature. Unfortunately, what I saw on the site was this:
“OLGA is currently offline while we attempt to resolve legal issues with the archive.
Read on to learn what has happened.