Books Vk — Guitar

But here is the ethical rub: most of these books are dead . They are out of print. The rights have reverted to authors who have since passed away, or the publishers don't even exist anymore. VK acts as a preservation society for orphaned works.

The Stacks of VK: Why the World’s Largest Guitar Library is Hiding in a Russian Social Network guitar books vk

The standard workflow for a guitarist for the last 30 years was: See a cool book > Check the price > Realize it’s out of print > Check eBay > See it listed for $200 because some guy in Ohio hoarded five copies > Cry. But here is the ethical rub: most of these books are dead

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I just found a PDF of a 1978 guitar method written by a session musician in Leningrad. The exercises are in Cyrillic. I have no idea what "Бенд на целый тон" means, but it sounds fast. Do you use VK for guitar tabs? Or do you think it’s killing the industry? Sound off in the comments (but please, no DMCA notices). VK acts as a preservation society for orphaned works

But as long as publishers refuse to offer affordable, DRM-free digital copies of their back catalogs, the VK stacks will remain. The torrent will not stop.

So, go ahead. Search for that Mickey Baker book. Download that obscure Allan Holdsworth transcription. Just remember: you are standing in a library built on sand. Don't forget to buy the new releases from the artists you love.

If you are a guitar author—a starving artist who spent 400 hours notating The Complete Styles of Pat Metheny —seeing your work on VK with 50,000 downloads and zero royalties is devastating. Publishers have tried to fight it. DMCA takedowns on VK are like trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon. The files are re-uploaded ten minutes later with a different Cyrillic filename.