Do you Joost?
have you tried Joost yet? I was one of the original beta testers a while back and found it to be a) unusable due to bandwidth and b) lacking anything to watch.
My, have things changed. 
After talking to another guitar enthusiast the other day, he told me I should give it another go. And he was right. Featured on Joost now is the GuitarWorld channel, featuring the video lessons and reviews from the magazine's cover discs. While you don't get the full benefit of the lessons without the accompanying tabs, the equipment reviews are fantastic.
If you haven't got Joost I highly recommend you check it out. It's a great time killer (and yes that is Zakk Wylde in the above screenshot).
A legal guitar tabs site?
Guitar World have released their Guitar World Tabs beta site and it may be the first legal tabs site out there. It features both the tabs they publish in their magazine in a non downloadable format, as well as user submitted videos and tabs.
I am very curious at how the user submitted tabs are handled. Do they publish everything, or does it have to run by the publishing companies to get approval first? I find it very odd that the publishing companies are allowing these tabs to run while shutting down every other tab site out there. I would have to assume there is some sort of advertising or revenue splitting agreement. But if they are willing to do that here why not offer it to somewhere like Ultimate Guitar? Guitar World will never catch up in terms of tab quantity or community participation as UG. UG has a much larger user base and potential marketing audience and surely that is enough for them to start thinking about ways to collaborate and not go all RIAA on the sites.
Do you think GW's Tabs site will last? Or is it only a matter of time before the music publishers realise that they won't make any money there and eventually pull their support? What do you think?
