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?

[lukas84]

So Maddoff shouldn't go to jail either?

Re:Skewed Priorities

[poopdeville]

Some of those "predatory loans" were impossible to pay off. Literally. Even if you kept up the schedule and didn't default. You would be in debt for the rest of your life.

Don't blame "poor people" for this mess. It is the fault of the upper-middle class. They were taking out ridiculous loans, betting on their bubble.

Re:Shouldn't this be a Civil matter?

[poopdeville]

Thanks for the clarification. Just to get this correct: He is being criminally prosecuted based on the fact he released the music a priori the record labels release. I'm sorry, but I have to ask for a little more justification (not that your post wasn't comprehensive).

Hehehheheh.

Hehahahahahaha

OH MAN MAKE IT STOP

A priori! As if that meant "prior to"!