Feds Demand Prison For Guns N' Roses Uploader

Defeat Globalism writes with this excerpt from Wired: "Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are pursuing a 6-month prison term for a Los Angeles man who pleaded guilty in December to one misdemeanor count of uploading pre-release Guns N' Roses tracks, according to court documents. Kevin Cogill was arrested last summer at gunpoint and charged with uploading nine tracks of the Chinese Democracy album to his music site — antiquiet.com. The album, which cost millions and took 17 years to complete, was released November 23 and reached No. 3 in the charts. The sentence being sought — including the calculation of damages based on the illegal activity of as many as 1,310 websites that disseminated the music after Cogill released it — underscores how serious the government is about punishing those for uploading pre-release material."

Comments

Re:Gun Point?

[Niris]

If they do send him to jail, it makes me wonder what kind of prison he'd be in. Anything with violent criminals where he would be facing ass rape would be damn good grounds for a lot of people to say fuck the government and burn down a bunch of buildings iimo . "You can't fight city hall, but you sure can burn it down"

...at gunpoint?

[Red_Chaos1]

...really?

I didn't realize music pirates were so dangerous these days.

Gettin' rough out there on the bleeding edge of the internet...

Re:He should go to prison, but not for...

[cliffski]

so fucking what?
The record company wasted time and money, not you?
Are you a record company shareholder?
No?
Then quit whining.