I don't see why people care so much, who cares?
You obviously aren't a musician.

I do not understand how this is illegal, though. Most tabbers actually use thier ears to tab out a song. They don't copy them straight from tablature books. They listen, and copy what they hear. I fail to see how there could be any legal issues whatsoever. If I learned a song, by ear, from a music CD and then taught it to a friend, would that also be illegal? Because it's the exact same smurfing thing.

The whole mp3 thing really does take money from the artists, though.
Yeah, like the one hit wonders. Most musicians however make their money from concert revenue. In fact, I know for absolute certain that the illegal distribution of MP3's has put money in the pockets of underground musicians. I would assume that almost all non mainstream musicians profit from p2p. I know that I would have never bought albums from , or attend the shows of, the artists that I listen to had I not had the ability to download thier music. The only people getting screwed are mainstram artists and major record labels, and I really couldn't care less about either of them.