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.

A friend of the family related a story to us about what happened to him yesturday. Here is the account of what happened as my mom tells it:

He was in the Albertson’s parking lot when a young woman with a young child approached him asking for $10 to get her son’s medication. She said she was just $10 short of being able to fill the prescription. Our friend told her to come with him and he would pay for the entire cost. She, of course, hemmed and hawwed. He insisted that it was no problem, that he would be glad to cover the entire amount. She hurriedly moved on and he watched her hit on (and score!) $10 each from two other shoppers. So he went in the store and found the manager and they watched her prowl the parking lot a few more minutes before calling the police. When our friend came out from shopping, she was being handcuffed and the child was in a Social Services car. Sad for the child!!! But the mother deserved to be held accountable for using a minor in a scam operation.

So what would you have done? It actually bothers me quite a bit that she would involve a child in this.