CAN OF WORMS?

A lot of you are familiar with http://www.pwarchive.com/. For a long time, it's been a resource for chord charts and tabs for worship music. While coasting around Facebook the other day, I see a "pwarchive" group so I check it out.

Imagine my surprise to find numerous angry comments on their wall. Why? Because of this recent notice posted at the worship site:
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Notice
Pwarchive has been contacted by the Church Music Publishers Association and have been asked to remove all lyrics from the site due to copyrights. Over the next few days, work is going to be done to comply with this. Please join the mailing list for all future updates. Want to help?

Additional details on this matter can be found on the copyright page which will contain future updates. Sign the petition to as CMPA members to grant licenses to Pwarchive.
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First things first - what are your thoughts on this development?

Secondly, if you'd like to protest this decision, I strongly urge you to click the 'petition' link above and let your voice be heard. I'm not sure how many names are needed, but as the time of this writing, it was somewhere around 1200 names.