http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/11/guns-n-roses-up.html
Last summer a man named Kevin Cogill uploaded 9 leaked Guns and Roses tracks of their new album Chinese Democracy. He was arrested for his illegal activities and has agreed to plead guilty to a federal court on a charge of copyright infringement. He is scheduled to enter a plea on December 8. Authorities have already reduced his charge from a felony to a misdemeanor, reducing his charge from a minimum of 5 years to a minimum of 1 year. Even better for Kevin Cogill, because of his good behavior in this case and his clean criminal record he probably will face no jail time. As part of the deal he must tell the source of the tracks he uploaded.
I think the only reason his sentence was so reduced is they want to completely screw the source he uploaded from. The recording industry is known for asking absurd amounts of money from people who obviously don't have any and according to this article they didn't settle for a sum of money like they usually do. I expect they have something up their sleeves.
I don't think this sort of infringement should come with a criminal prosecution. As another blogger aptly put it: "The government should never be the entertainment industry's bitch." ~Anon E. Maus
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I think that punishment could've been pretty harsh for a misdemeanor. I am glad he isn't going to end up in jail. When you said you think the record industry has something up their sleeves, you’re defiantly correct. They are going to deal with Kevin like they do drug dealers. Why catch the guppy when you can catch the shark? Just need that guppy to lure you to the shark, and then catch it.
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Ryan Wettlaufer
I think he got really luck that it was not that harsh. But the sad truth underline through these events is that art is a business above everything else, one that has little benefiting the artist but a great deal to the company for a fair price of singers' soul.
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