Feds Demand Prison For Guns N' Roses Uploader 590
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."
Re:fp (Score:5, Funny)
WARNING: If you upload Chinese Democracy (Score:3, Funny)
You will get a taste of Chinese Democracy.
And you will not be hungry for it an hour later.
years (Score:5, Funny)
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
Re:Has beens (Score:5, Funny)
That's exactly why he's being prosecuted. The corporation's constitutional right to sell expensive crap is being trampled!
Re:fp (Score:4, Funny)
Time Served (Score:2, Funny)
At that price... (Score:2, Funny)
The album, which cost millions
No wonder people pirate music. I'd pay 20 bucks tops.
Re:You should (Score:5, Funny)
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
Re:He should go to prison, but not for... (Score:2, Funny)
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!
Re:He should go to prison, but not for... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Pirates and Bankers (Score:3, Funny)
Good news. He can rot in jail along with all the bankers the feds arrested for stealing hundreds of billions via fraud. Oh wait...
Restitution + public service announcement (Score:3, Funny)
Wow (Score:2, Funny)
Gonna call the President
Gonna call a Private Eye
Gonna get the IRS
Gonna need the FBI
For those who don't know Italian, (Score:4, Funny)
If YANAF, you might not understand the Italian fashion term prima fascia, which means "the belt is the best," a motto used by designers who favor sashes, cummerbunds, and other such accessories.
However, such obscure phrases are subject to much misunderstanding and misuse, which constitute prima facie ("on its face") evidence that such linguistic frippery is better left unused when possible.