I have this to say in response to the Slashdot article about the shutdown of OLGA:

Sometimes I wish there were a single word to express all the rage, disgust, shock, and horror in a single instance…”fuck” doesn’t do that anymore. Is the industry that delusional to believe that copyright is the incentive for creating new material? Last time I checked, love for the art form was the main motivation for creating music, but I guess I could be wrong. Yes, obviously professional musicians need money to continue along, but where the hell does posting guitar tabs/lyrics to the internet come into play in taking that away from the artist? Instead of buying the CD, I’m going to record all the songs myself and distribute it to friends…yeah.

So I suppose I should stop listening to songs and figuring out how to play them on my guitar. I should stop putting music quotes in my away messages. I should stop singing along in my car. I don’t want Big Brother detaining me for violating DMCA. Music has become a commodity, far from an art form. Minus a few diamonds in the rough over the years, for the most part, it is rubbish. It’s a fucking shame that it has come to this.