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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."
it only took two hundred years to go from "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country," to, "eat my asshole." :(
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You will get a taste of Chinese Democracy.
And you will not be hungry for it an hour later.
That 17 years can be broken down as follows for Axl:
16 years, 10 months: lying around drugged out of his mind
2 months: working on music
-Dave
That's exactly why he's being prosecuted. The corporation's constitutional right to sell expensive crap is being trampled!
I have mod points. The reign of terror begins now.
To paraphrase: No one ever won a war by dying for his country. They won the war by making the other poor sap die for his.
But the album sucks. The fact that he actually had the the tracks and listened to them should be punishment enough.
The album, which cost millions
No wonder people pirate music. I'd pay 20 bucks tops.
I dunno, I thought the ironic part was that this is the punishment for pirating an album entitled 'Chinese Democracy'... Doesn't this sound kind of like how the chinese handle democracy? :D
I sure do. Back then, it was PERSONAL computing, not NETWORK computing.
Yeah, it's nice having a "personal" computer still in this day an age. By that I mean, I can do stuff on my computer and not worry it's being sent all over the internet by Microsoft or some piece of spyware that keeps me internet connection light down by my Windows clock blinking constantly.
On my Amiga I can still convert a CD to MP3s and upload them with little worry of anyboady cathing me( at least if I'm connected to my neighbors wireless!) Oops, probably a bad thread for this I might get arrested! Uh, just kidding, I don't even on a CD-ROM drive!
The police were probably simply told that they were arresting a pirate. They thought he might whip out a cutlass or try to shoot them with a musket.
Similar to the upcoming US election results
Good news. He can rot in jail along with all the bankers the feds arrested for stealing hundreds of billions via fraud. Oh wait...
Moderation in everything, including moderation.
In addition to asking for Mr. Kogill's imprisonment, the RIAA is asking the Judge to order Mr. Kogill to pay them $30,000 "restitution" and make a "public service announcement". I think directing Mr. Kogill to do a "public service announcement" for the RIAA would be "cruel and unusual punishment".
Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
I guess Axl wasn't kidding with the lyrics to the track IRS off the record:
Gonna call the President
Gonna call a Private Eye
Gonna get the IRS
Gonna need the FBI
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