First off, I didn't get to post in the closed topic, so I thought I'd start a new one in general on the subject of not just this author/tutor, but many. I have recently seen this thread: http://customsforge.com/topic/16561-guitar-aerobics/ .... and even with the reasons that were given, that were understandable to an extent, I'm unsure as to weather or not this cdlc should have stayed or went. As the case with a fair few here, I would never have even heard about the book until I saw that this cdlc did exist. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Troy-Nelson-Guitar-Aerobics-Book/dp/1423414357 Is there a time where we should start to 'reach out' to tutors/authors for permission to make educational non profit cdlc? For example we could send a message to Troy here and ask the man ourselves: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Troy-Nelson/443972765663345 I done the same when I started trying to tab out and make cdlc of Daniel Tidwell's music and the reply was nice: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/nero041001/Guitar/dan.jpg I have been chatting to him for a while now, he's a lovely chap. Other people to consider is Andy Crowley (No books yet, but there are some coming): https://www.youtube.com/user/andycrowley and also Justin Sandercoe (Plenty of books, dvds and cds, but he offers everything online for free): https://www.youtube.com/user/JustinSandercoe/featured?spfreload=10 I'm awaiting Andy's first books and bought a few of Justins books, and because of this site and the cdlc that was removed I'll also be purchasing Troy's Guitar Aerobics book and also noticed he has a couple of other books that I'll purchase too as I progress. If Laro doesn't feel comfortable in contacting Troy, I'll happily do it on his behalf, the worst that can happen with any tutor/author is them saying 'no.' :) What do you think of 'reaching out' like this? Would it be a good idea for the forum? I'm sure it'll be good for the author, as even if 70% of cdlc users do not buy the book, it sounds like around 30% (including myself.... just putting the order in now) will end up buying the book as it's not often you'd have a book, cd and cdlc all to compliment to each other and looking at the book, it'd give more information about what your doing, so some of the aforementioned 70% might pick it up as well as we're all here to learn :) tris