Das Ruhrpuls-Festival 2012 ist nun zuendegegangen, und auch diesmal mit einer grossen Abschlussparty in der Rotunde:
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On-line Guitar Archive (OLGA) is the oldest internet library of guitar and bass tablature, or „tabs“. Born from a collection of guitarist internet-forum archives, it has been a useful resource for musicians of all genres for over a decade.
The website began its life in the newsgroups rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature and alt.guitar.tab, where users would post tabs they had written or requests for tabs of certain songs or artists. The problem was that after a few days, the contents of the forum would be aged (i.e. removed). Around 1992 the posts were collected together by James Bender at UNLV into an ftp site that later became www.OLGA.net, the project’s current home. In 1994 Cathal Woods took over the project as archivist and is still in charge today.
In 1996, EMI Publishing filed a complaint with UNLV, claiming that the archive was in breach of copyright law with songs they had the rights to. Although OLGA was never threatened directly, UNLV kicked the project off its server. Then in…