LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Federal officials on Wednesday arrested a man on suspicion of violating copyright laws for placing songs on the Internet from an unreleased album by rock band Guns N' Roses.
Kevin Cogill, 27, who has no known direct affiliation with Guns N' Roses, posted nine tracks from the band's upcoming album "Chinese Democracy" on his Web site, said Laura Eimiller, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The long-awaited upcoming album from Guns N' Roses, a hard-rocking group that came to fame in 1987 with the album "Appetite for Destruction," is the band's first since its 1993 release "The Spaghetti Incident?"
An FBI agent said in an affidavit that Cogill admitted to posting the tracks on the Internet at www.antiquiet.com.
Cogill removed the tracks from the Web site, but by then the songs had circulated widely, Eimiller said.
Cogill, who appeared in court on Wednesday on a charge of unlawfully leaking the songs, faces a maximum of three years in prison if convicted, and five years if it's found that he did it for commercial gain. He was released on bail.
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3 years in prison?! damn, this is getting serious...
what he did was really dumb anyway, should've used newsgroups instead.
Guy defrauds 150 million in a phone scam in Canada and only gets 2 years. This guy causes a statistical 0$ in damage and gets 5 years. Anyone else smelling flaming bull shit in the air?
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well crap I agree any one who puts guns and roses on the net should go to jail.
Last joint smoked by Undying Wizard NHD : Today at 04:20
ohh and if you wear a t-shirt of thiers you should be shot
lol jk I grew up on GNR lies lies lies
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So the guy had no known affiliation. Well, I'd like to know just how he got the tracks in the first place. Somebody on the inside obviously hooked him up.
*sniff sniff*
Yeah, this smells funny.
Shit.. It was the only way it was going to get released if someone leaked it out.
It took him so long to do, im sure its in public domain now. Dont arrest axl for the drugs he has in his house or during the years he toured.
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Holy crap.
Wrong thread...
ROFLMAO!Originally Posted by Undying Wizard NHD
10char bs
I wonder if this CD will be the soundtrack for Duke Nukem Forever.
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I hope the community make GNR suffer for this. Like Lars (from Metallica), Axl is becoming the new enemy with moves like these.
First they make the fans wait for 13 years (and counting) for an album that probably will have no relevance in music today and then they start to prosecute fans that want to share with comunity the "great job" GNR is doing in studio so far.
What a joke. Hope Cogil will be refunded for bail paid.
Man that sucks, I need to get out of the U.S. before I get caught with all my Files.
Dont you mean with their files.. They own the shit =) USA is still good to be in.. In other countries they will torture you, and then send you to the US to face trial.
Maybe just a hard lean to get him to confess whom(right?) on the inside leaked the files? Just a theory.
this is the reason i use open source instead of giving in to the temptation to pirating software
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