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RIAA enlists the FBI

Wetwired Time Thursday, August 28th, 2008 at 8:51 am by pylorns

While, I admit, you gotta be pretty dumb to share copyrighted mateterial of an unreleased album on your blogsite…this sounds like a massive waste of tax payer money to send the FBI to arrest an idiot.

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities say they have arrested a blogger suspected of streaming songs from Guns N’ Roses unreleased album, “Chinese Democracy,” on his Web site.
FBI agents arrested 27-year-old Kevin Cogill on Wednesday morning on suspicion of violating federal copyright laws. Federal authorities say Cogill posted nine unreleased Guns N’ Roses songs on his Web site in June.
The songs were later removed.

According to an arrest affidavit, Cogill admitted to agents that he posted the songs on his Web site.
“Chinese Democracy” is a much anticipated — and repeatedly delayed — new album by Guns N’ Roses that is more than 10 years in the making.

Yeah…I’m going to go with waste of my money, regaurdless of it being federal vs local.  I think our FBI (for the ones listening on the other end of my phone) is great.  They should be spending their time thwarting terrorist plots.




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