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Feds Arrest Man for Posting Guns N Roses Songs on Blog
Upcoming album gets an unexpected early release.
by Michael Bordash
Wednesday, August 27 2008
FBI agents arrested Kevin Cogill, 27, suspected of posting songs from Guns N' Roses unreleased album on his website. The man has no apparent connection with the band, but managed still to get his hands on nine songs from GNR's upcoming album "Chinese Democracy".
Although Cogill removed the songs, the original blog entry remains on AntiQuiet.com. The songs are now widely available on the scene. The financial damage this has caused is unknown due to uncontrollable private torrent distribution. GNR, like many artists, still rely primarily on album & download sales.
Cogill faces up to three years in prison for leaking the songs and a possible five years if it is proven that he did so for commercial gain.
Although Cogill removed the songs, the original blog entry remains on AntiQuiet.com. The songs are now widely available on the scene. The financial damage this has caused is unknown due to uncontrollable private torrent distribution. GNR, like many artists, still rely primarily on album & download sales.
Cogill faces up to three years in prison for leaking the songs and a possible five years if it is proven that he did so for commercial gain.
Article Comments
| That's quite a cruel and unusual punishment. Hopefully the ACLU can step in and counter-sue the RIAA. Posted on: 2008-09-19 02:59:30 |
| probably the only way anybody will ever actually hear the songs, don't think that album is EVER going to come out. Axl has been working on it for what... 20 years??! Posted on: 2008-08-30 18:38:44 |
| I just think this toolbox didn't think he would get caught. What a nut job. It's usually an internal leak of some kind OR it's leaked as a PR stunt. Posted on: 2008-08-30 04:46:08 |
| What a F**KIN idiot chief!!!!!! He probably thought, " Guns n Roses get the ladies like bees on honey, and I don't cuz I look so stupid with this loser look, but they also look like bad boys too. Well I guess I'm pretty close. Hmmm...maybe I can look the part. I'll smoke more cigarettes, buy a Harley well... a Yamaha and put Harley emblems on it, dye my hair, spend my monthly earning on a V.I.P. spot, and try this with nothing to lose. What a genius idea!!!" Yeah then later on it was "FREEZE MUTHAF**KA!!!! " Well he should start singing a new song called Locked Up featuring Akon. Posted on: 2008-08-28 00:42:51 |
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