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FBI Arrests Blogger for Guns N’ Roses Leak

Posted on 29 August 2008 by ksouthall

FBI agents arrested 27-year-old Kevin Cogill on Wednesday morning on suspicion of violating federal copyright laws.  Cogill is suspected of streaming songs from the unreleased Guns N’ Roses album “Chinese Democracy” on his Web site.  His bail was set at $10,000.00

Cogill admitted that he posted the music on his site, but later took them down.  Still, prosecutors said the leak could result in a “significant” financial loss for the band.

“Guns N’ Roses representatives have been made aware of the arrest and are leaving the matter to the authorities,” said Larry Solters, the band’s spokesman.

Guns and Roses is of course the 80’s hair band (for all of you born in the 90s) that has only one original member left, Axl Rose.  The re-grouped band has been working on this album for about 10 years and everyone has been waiting with baited breath for this big comeback!  You can check out some of the old stuff below, enjoy!

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At least the band themselves are not suing the blogger, he is going to have enough trouble dealing with the FBI as he has only a public defender and can not afford good representation.

Take note kids, mess with the bull and you get the horns!!!

OK sorry that was cheesy, kind of like the old school picture of the original line up shown above.

What do you all think, does the FBI have jurisdiction in a case like this?  Or is this something better handled in civil court?


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2 Comments For This Post

  1. smarty Says:

    Why is the FBI wasting its time and money on copyright? There are bigger problems in our nation that they should be dealing with.

  2. kevin Says:

    C’mon with “he has only a public defender and can not afford good representation”. Plenty of excellent federal defense attorneys out there. How does their determination to work for the cause of representing the indigent amount to ineffective counsel?

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